From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:11:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a858cb6.PeM4kLPTFARQvlUx%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908141800.57905.dirk.heinrichs@online.de>
Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de> wrote:
> Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling:
>
> > The fastest method for copying directory trees (typicalls 30% faster than
> > any other known method) is to use star:
> >
> > star -copy -p -xdot -acl -sparse -C <fromdir> . <todir>
>
> That's a really nice one. However, does it also handle the "update <todir>"
> case mentioned above?
star by default only overwrites a file if it is older than the file that is
going to be extracted.
Jörg
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-14 2:47 [gentoo-user] [OT] fast recursive local copy meino.cramer
2009-08-14 3:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-14 8:30 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-08-14 8:50 ` Joerg Schilling
2009-08-14 16:00 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-08-14 16:11 ` Joerg Schilling [this message]
2009-08-14 16:56 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-08-14 17:00 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-08-14 20:47 ` Joerg Schilling
2009-08-15 15:26 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2009-08-15 22:19 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-08-15 22:49 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-08-14 7:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Kazantsev
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