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<h2>testclone.lua</h2>
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<span class="comment">--cloning a directory tree.
</span>
<span class="global">require</span> <span class="string">'pl'</span>
p1 = <span class="string">[[examples]]</span>
p2 = <span class="string">[[copy/of/examples]]</span>
<span class="keyword">if</span> <span class="keyword">not</span> path.isfile <span class="string">'examples/testclone.lua'</span> <span class="keyword">then</span>
<span class="keyword">return</span> <span class="global">print</span> <span class="string">'please run this in the penlight folder (below examples)'</span>
<span class="keyword">end</span>
<span class="comment">-- make a copy of the examples folder
</span>dir.clonetree(p1,p2,dir.copyfile)
<span class="global">assert</span>(path.isdir <span class="string">'copy'</span>)
<span class="global">print</span> <span class="string">'---'</span>
t = <span class="global">os</span>.time()
<span class="global">print</span>(lfs.touch(<span class="string">'examples/testclone.lua'</span>,t,t+<span class="number">10</span>))
<span class="comment">-- this should only update this file
</span>dir.clonetree(p1,p2,
<span class="keyword">function</span>(f1,f2)
<span class="keyword">local</span> t1 = path.getmtime(f1)
<span class="keyword">local</span> t2 = path.getmtime(f2)
<span class="comment">--print(f1,t1,f2,t2)
</span> <span class="keyword">if</span> t1 > t2 <span class="keyword">then</span>
dir.copyfile(f1,f2)
<span class="global">print</span>(f1,f2,t1,t2)
<span class="keyword">end</span>
<span class="keyword">return</span> <span class="keyword">true</span>
<span class="keyword">end</span>)
<span class="comment">-- and get rid of the whole copy directory, with subdirs
</span>dir.rmtree <span class="string">'copy'</span>
<span class="global">assert</span>(<span class="keyword">not</span> path.exists <span class="string">'copy'</span>)</pre>
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