in reply to Re^5: Handling Hash Comparison
in thread Handling Hash Comparison

I am trying to synchronize the files recursively in the 2 dirs, so that everything in the source is checked in the destination, and updated if necessary, using md5's to check the files.

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Re^7: Handling Hash Comparison
by Errto (Vicar) on Jul 23, 2005 at 04:37 UTC
    Understood. In that case, once you follow my above suggestion for putting relative paths into the hash keys, then your cp statement simply becomes this:
    "cp '$sdir/$key' '$fdir/$key'"