Just learned XCOPY doesn't do what I want - the resolution of "newness" it
reckognizes is 1 day or more.
Leon: What's rsync?

In the meantime guess I'll try looking at DIR...

Roger

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Roger Levy <roger.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Everyone, thanks for the suggestions.
>
> I was hoping to be able to do it in a semi-portable way. Shold've
> mentioned that.
>
> I think that the simplest might be using a shell command, since the process
> should translate to equivalent Mac and Linux commands ... (I hope???)
>
> Roger
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Charles Melice <3d_at_forthcad.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> You know probably that the XCOPY.EXE command line do that for free...
>>
>> Charles
>>
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com [mailto:sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com] De la part
>> de
>> Roger Levy
>> Envoyé : jeudi 7 août 2008 16:55
>> À : sftalk_at_forth.com
>> Objet : [sftalk] Search for file / Check file properties
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>> I wanted to implement an automatic resource-update facility, but I'm not
>> sure how to do it in SwiftForth, or where to find out.
>>
>> I would like to be able to search for a file in a source directory and see
>> if we need to copy it to a target directory.
>>
>> If the source file is found,
>>
>> 1. If it doesn't exist in the target directory, copy it and exit.
>>
>> 2. If it exists in the target directory and the source file is newer than
>> the target file, copy it and exit.
>>
>> 3. Else do nothing and exit.
>>
>>
>> Mostly I was just wondering what are the commands to use to 1.) find a
>> file
>> in a directory and 2.) check its Last Modified attribute.
>>
>> Roger
>>
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