stupid *nix tricks – Internet Strategy Guide https://phpprotip.com Together we can defeat the internet Tue, 07 Mar 2017 02:01:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.29 55205001 Copyright © Internet Strategy Guide 2013 chance@chancegarcia.com (Internet Strategy Guide) chance@chancegarcia.com (Internet Strategy Guide) http://phpprotip.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Internet Strategy Guide https://phpprotip.com 144 144 Together we can defeat the internet Internet Strategy Guide Internet Strategy Guide chance@chancegarcia.com no no stupid *nix tricks https://phpprotip.com/2008/11/stupid-nix-tricks/ https://phpprotip.com/2008/11/stupid-nix-tricks/#respond Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:38:08 +0000 http://phpprotip.com/?p=53 [Edit: Seems like the -u flag is on debian systems such as Ubuntu. Did a man on a FreeBSD system and saw it didn’t have the flag available.]
I use the cp and mv a lot that the -r and -f flags almost always accompany them. I also now realize I’ve used them for so long with so little thought that I forgot that there were other flags. My newest infatuation is the -u flag.

Basically -u lets you do a merge, which came in handy when I had to manually update wordpress for the first time. I could tell you more or you could RTFM

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