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ditto overwrites existingįiles, symbolic links, and devices in the destination when these are copiedįrom a source. (preferred for unix content) or PKZip (for Windows compatibility).Ĭan be the single character '-', causing ditto to read (write) archive dataĪrguments but does not follow any links as it traverses the source orĭestination hierarchies. The next two forms reflect ditto's ability In its second form, ditto copies a file to Source directories are merged with the previous contents of the If the destination directory already exists then the If theĭestination directory does not exist it will be created before the first More source files or directories to a destination directory. Directory hierarchies, create and extract archives SYNOPSIS ditto

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