On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 17:40 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I had at one point copied a large number of files between drives and did
> not use the -p and thus the timestamps were all set to the date of the copy.
>
> I did not catch this, and deleted the source. So I 'lived' with it and
> have since changed many files.
>
> Well, yesterday I found a good backup of many of those files and I want
> to restore them to their proper dates.
>
> cp -p -u is exactly the opposite of what I want. I want to copy only if
> the source files have an earlier date than the destination files.
I suggest "man find" and focus on the (new to me) versions of "newer". I
think, IIUC, that one of those tests will meet your needs. When the test
passes, an appropriate "exec ..." may do what you want.
>
> The source files are just an old copy on another drive that I found when
> cleaning up things...
> <snip>
HTH
--
Bill
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