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Bash copy verbose update in Solaris

I'm writing some small bash scripts for copiyng certain files/directories in GNU/Linux and Solaris. Everything is OK in Linux, but cp command hasn't the same options in Linux and Solaris.

Copy command is something like this:

cp -ruv $source $dest

Unfortunately I don't know how to achieve copy verbose and copy update in Solaris. Any idea?

Thanks

Solution

  • Unfortunately, cp under Solaris doesn't have that option. man solaris should reveal that.

    Are you comfortable making your script depend on rsync?

    Or, if possible, you can install the coreutils package and use GNU's cp.