On 6/13/2010 5:34 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm upgrading PSTricks. There are 50 modules, and the relevant .tex files > are each in its own directory. I thought that I could cd to the parent > directory of these and use 'cp -R *.tex > /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks' but the shell tells me it cannot find > a *.tex file. > > Do I need to use a for loop so the shell knows to look in each directory > for the .tex file to copy? Or have I not used the cp command correctly? >
Are you wanting to copy just the .tex files, and into the same directory structure? This should do that: |tar cf - *.tex | ( cd /target; tar xfp -)| Not tested. I've used similar for backing up to disk. -- Russell Johnson [email protected] Dimension 7 Consulting. http://www.dimstar.net Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OS/X _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
