Re: cp -n diff

[Zafer Aydoğan <zafer%aydogan.de@localhost>]

2011/5/3 Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>:
> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 08:30:35PM +0200, Zafer Aydoğan wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> attached is a patch that implements the -n option for cp, which skips 
>> existing
>> files on the target.
>
> Please, no. Just use the right tool for the job.
>
> Joerg
>

by "right tools" I suppose you refer to pax.
Clearly, there could be tons of other tools to accomplish this task,
but thats not my point. I would like to enrich cp of a feature that
it is clearly missing in NetBSD.
Although -n isn't POSIX, it is common behaviour.
What arguments are there besides pax ?

Zafer.