From: faerber AT ant DOT uni-hannover DOT de (Dirk Färber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: directory compare
Date: 18 Jan 1999 17:39:46 GMT
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>The DJGPP port of GNU Findutils (v2gnu/find41b.zip from the usual DJGPP=20
>sites) includes a program called `find' that can do this, and much more. =
>=20
Did I get you right, that find can compare size and date with 
another file to chose copy or no copy including the direction?
And find does this action recursive for a several levels?
If yes: I didn't find this option for find. 

>It allows you to define a lot of conditions, besides file's date and=20
>time, under which it will or will not be copied.  You can even tell it to=
>=20
>actually copy the file (or invoke any other program on it, for that=20
>matter) if it satisfies the conditions.