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Subject:FW: Maintaining a common set of web site links From:"Johnson, Tom" <TJohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:47:40 -0400
Not all of us have been around long enough to have started out in the command line glory days. Some of us have been around long enough, but forgot about them through disuse. I imagine there are some that just don't know...
Tom
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Subject: Re: Maintaining a common set of web site links
On Thu, 2005-27-10 at 14:24 -0400, David Castro wrote:
>
> I'll toss this out as a free option, though likely overkill for most
> people: Apache Ant is a build tool used for many Java-based
> application development projects, and likely other programming
> languages, as well. It has modules in it for copying files from one
> directory to another. It will only copy those files that are newer
> than the one in the target directory, unless you specifically override
> it to copy everything. You can include/exclude specific file types and
> even specific files.
Is there any reason except command line phobia not to use "xcopy /u" (or
"cp --update" on Linux)?
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