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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers copy only new files or files of a different size Post 302316584 by arnoldg on Friday 15th of May 2009 12:45:52 PM
Old 05-15-2009
copy only new files or files of a different size

hello

i would like to copy files from 1 location to a nother, but it has only to copy files which are newer or have a different filesize.
all has to be logged to a copy.log file (als skipped files should be in the log)

is this possible with the cp command
 

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gnomevfs-copy(1)						   User Commands						  gnomevfs-copy(1)

NAME
gnomevfs-copy - copy a file from one VFS location to another SYNOPSIS
gnomevfs-copy [-h] source-URI destination-URI DESCRIPTION
gnomevfs-copy copies a file from one URI location to another, using the virtual file system. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -h Display usage and help information. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: source-URI Specifies the source file location in standard URI format. destination-URI Specifies the destination file or directory location in standard URI format. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Copying a File From a Web Server to a Local File example% gnomevfs-copy http://www.sun.com file:///home/user/index.html ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH. EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure. FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/gnomevfs-copy Executable to copy a file from one VFS location to another ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-vfs | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
gnomevfs-cat(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1), gnomevfs-mkdir(1) NOTES
Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004. SunOS 5.10 6 Sep 2004 gnomevfs-copy(1)
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