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cp command

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snowsmart

IS-IT--Management
May 24, 2005
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CA
I want to copy files from A dir to B Dir, but I only need copy the ones that does not exist in the B dir.

Please help

thanks




 
Assuming you dont have 100s of files to move, this will do the trick:

Code:
cd /location/A
for foo in `ls`
do
  if [ ! -e /location/B/$foo ]
  then
    cp /location/A/$foo /location/B/
  fi
done
 
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