Re: Dired vs MC

[Dieter Wilhelm]

"Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> writes:

> Charles philip Chan wrote:
>> On 23 Dec 2006, rthorpe@realworldtech.com wrote:
>>
...
>>
>> What he meant is that if the file exist in the destination directory,
>> only replace the file if the file in the source directory is newer.
>>
>
> Ah.  You want something like:-
> M-x dired-compare-directories RET
> ... select 2nd directory name... RET
> (> mtime1 mtime2) RET
>

Thank you, this can be helpful but it is inconvenient when you would
like to apply these predicates recursively to sub-directories.

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    H. Dieter Wilhelm
    Darmstadt, Germany