On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Craig White wrote:

> Man cp on OSX didn't give me any clues about an 'update' option
>
> Clues?

Use cpio or tar or pax.

cpio's normal behaviour is to not replace newer files with older files.

Some pax implementations have an -u option ("Ignore files that are older
than a pre-existing file").

And some versions of tar have an -u switch too for updating.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

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