copying files (overwriting)

[Toby Kelsey]

René wrote:
> 
> hi gnome users
> i want to copy files to an other harddisk, but only newer versions of 
> files or complete new files should be written to it. Nautilus now only 
> asks me, if i want to overwrite a certain file which does already exist.
> I  want to understand with which 2 versions of a file i am dealing at
> such a  moment. how to achieve that? response on that would be kind.
> regards, René
> 

Maybe the 'rsync' or 'unison' commands (packages) would be useful for this.

Toby