Re: question why it does work on not changed files here?

calmar <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:17:30 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tools.aap.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 08:55:25AM +0200, calmar wrote:
> 
> ------------------[ from the manual ]------------------------
> Changing a file in-place has the disadvantage that the normal
> dependencies don't work, since there is no separate source and
> target file. 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 

The question remains:

let's say I have one directory and I want to copy all newly
changed files to another directory without using 'publish'...
attributes (or however), but rather with using a system command.

How could I do that?

when 

------------------------------------------
all : file1 file2 file3
      @for item in source_list:
          :system cp $source targetdir/
------------------------------------------


does not work because there are no 'dependences between files,
or however? (the recipe above always copies the files, doesn't
matter if changed or not)

Thanks a lot for any hint
marco
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