mv command behavior

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Mon Jul 9 16:00:11 UTC 2007


Hi, I don't know if I already sent this question or not, my server  
died before, and I havn't been able to receive the mails for a while.

I want to move the files from one dir to another, but only if they are  
newer. So I do:

mv -u /tmp/dirA/dirB /dirC/dirB

Meaning moving it from being a subdir of /tmp/dirA to be a subdir of /dirC.

The first time it works, but the next time it will end up being like this:

/dirC/dirB/dirB :(

Could I use the "cp -ru" instead with some other flag to remove files  
successfully copied?

/Peter






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