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Old 11-26-2011
Writing Script to Copy Newest Directory
I am trying to write a script that once executed it will search within a directory and copy only the newest directory that has not been copied before to a new location. Kind of like what ROBOCOPY /M does in windows?

The directories are not left in the new location so using a sync action won't really work.

Thanks
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Old 11-27-2011
You want an application called rsync, it can be configured to look for the newest file or directory. Otherwise, you will have to create a file/database to keep track of which ones you have copied, and work off that. rsync will just look for directories (of a specified format) that do not exist on the destination directory.
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Old 11-27-2011
I have heard of RSync before. The problem is that after the folders are copied the copy doesn't stay where it is. it is automatically moved to a new location so would rsync would be copying all files from the original directory every time?
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