stupid cp(1) behaviour

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday,  1 December 2011 at 11:35:50 -0800, Matt Mullins wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:28 AM, Alexander Best <arundel at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> implement a new -N switch or so which isn't based on a file's
>> existance, but a file's checksum.
>
> You can always use net/rsync, which does by default compare
> checksums.

FWIW, by default rsync only compares checksums by default if the file
size or modification timestamps are different.  If you want to always
go by checksum, you need the -c (--checksum) option.

Greg
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