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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copy file only if newer Post 303024481 by drew77 on Tuesday 9th of October 2018 01:27:12 PM
Old 10-09-2018
Copy file only if newer

I only want the file copied if it is newer. But it still copies the file?

Code:
zip -u Ubuntu_Documents.zip ./*[.txt *.doc *.rtf *.html *.png *.pdf *.odt *.ods *.odg] 
cp -u Ubuntu_Documents.zip $DOCS_Backup/Ubuntu_Documents_`date +"%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M"`.zip

 

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ZIP_SOURCE_ZIP(3)					     Library Functions Manual						 ZIP_SOURCE_ZIP(3)

NAME
zip_source_zip - create data source from zip file LIBRARY
libzip (-lzip) SYNOPSIS
#include <zip.h> struct zip_source * zip_source_zip(struct zip *archive, struct zip *srcarchive); "zip_uint64_t srcidx" "int flags" "zip_uint64_t start" "zip_int64_t len" DESCRIPTION
The function zip_source_zip creates a zip source from a file in a zip archive. The srcarchive argument is the (open) zip archive contain- ing the source zip file at index srcidx. len bytes from offset start will be used in the zip_source. If len is 0 or -1, the rest of the file, starting from start, is used. If start is zero and len is -1, the whole file will be copied without decompressing it. Supported flags are: ZIP_FL_UNCHANGED Try to get the original data without any changes that may have been made to srcarchive after opening it. ZIP_FL_RECOMPRESS When adding the data from srcarchive, re-compress it using the current settings instead of copying the com- pressed data. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the created source is returned. Otherwise, NULL is returned and the error code in archive is set to indicate the error. ERRORS
zip_source_zip fails if: [ZIP_ER_CHANGED] Unchanged data was requested, but it is not available. [ZIP_ER_INVAL] srcarchive, srcidx, start, or len are invalid. [ZIP_ER_MEMORY] Required memory could not be allocated. Additionally, it can return all error codes from zip_stat_index and zip_fopen_index. SEE ALSO
libzip(3), zip_add(3), zip_replace(3), zip_source_buffer(3), zip_source_file(3), zip_source_filep(3), zip_source_free(3), zip_source_func- tion(3) AUTHORS
Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at> NiH June 4, 2008 ZIP_SOURCE_ZIP(3)
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