On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 06:27:20PM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> for F in *
> do cmp "$F" "/new/directory/$F" && touch -r "$F" "/new/directory/$F"
> done
>
> That will compare all the files and adjust the timestamp on the files
> that are still the same as those on the backup. Note that, despite
> the quoting, the script will break if any of the filenames have embedded
> whitespace because the "for F in *" will be parsed incorrectly.
Not in a sane shell. Heh, not even in bash :-)
bash-2.05b$ touch "a b"
bash-2.05b$ touch c
bash-2.05b$ touch d
bash-2.05b$ ls
a b c d
bash-2.05b$ for a in *
> do
> echo Result is: $a
> done
Result is: a b
Result is: c
Result is: d
--
rgds
Stephen
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