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Re: cp -u always copies all files
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: Keith Christian <keithchristian at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:18:52 -0500
- Subject: Re: cp -u always copies all files
- References: <20040616220745.43682.qmail@web52207.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Keith Christian wrote:
> I'm running this Cygwin distribution on Windows XP Pro:
>
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 den-aet-xpw002 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown
> unknown Cygwin
>
> My most pressing question is why "cp -u" always copies all files instead of
> only updated ones. I have tried this with several test files, and it never
> once offers to copy only new/updated files. Is this a bug, or is there some
> other way I can test this and report back my findings?
WFM :-).
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 fordpc 1.5.10(0.116/4/2) 2004-05-26 11:10 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin
$ touch x
$ cp -u x y
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 ford None 0 Jun 16 17:15 x
-rw-r--r-- 1 ford None 0 Jun 16 17:15 y
$ date
Wed Jun 16 17:16:01 CST 2004
$ cp -u x y
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 ford None 0 Jun 16 17:15 x
-rw-r--r-- 1 ford None 0 Jun 16 17:15 y
$ touch x
$ cp -u x y
$ ls -l
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 ford None 0 Jun 16 17:16 x
-rw-r--r-- 1 ford None 0 Jun 16 17:16 y
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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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