Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2014-04-17 Thread arisawa
Hello, I found this mail today. sorry. Just not to overwrite newer files cpdir does behave this way. 2009/07/20 18:32、c...@gli.cas.cz のメール: hi, i'm quite happy with the 'cpdir' by Kenji Arisawa (thanks, Kenji!) on sources/contrib/arisawa. However, your scripty seems fine, too. Could

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2014-04-17 Thread erik quanstrom
On Thu Apr 17 08:54:02 EDT 2014, aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: Hello, I found this mail today. sorry. Just not to overwrite newer files cpdir does behave this way. mkfs already does this. :-) - erik

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-22 Thread Federico G. Benavento
btw, shouldn't mkfs use allproto by default like mk9660 does or am I just missing something? On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Charles Forsythfors...@terzarima.net wrote: Before I say anythign daft, what's '+'? It does not appear to be special on my system. it's interpreted by mkfs in its proto

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread Charles Forsyth
Before I say anythign daft, what's '+'? It does not appear to be special on my system. it's interpreted by mkfs in its proto file to mean all the substructure of a directory. see mkfs(8).

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread cej
hi, i'm quite happy with the 'cpdir' by Kenji Arisawa (thanks, Kenji!) on sources/contrib/arisawa. However, your scripty seems fine, too. Could we add a switch to conform with gnu's cp -au? Just not to overwrite newer files. I don't know there is an option there in 'tar' (I can't see in in

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:32:11 +0200 c...@gli.cas.cz wrote: hi, i'm quite happy with the 'cpdir' by Kenji Arisawa (thanks, Kenji!) on sources/contrib/arisawa. However, your scripty seems fine, too. Could we add a switch to conform with gnu's cp -au? Just not to overwrite newer files. I

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:55:21 +0100 Charles Forsyth fors...@terzarima.net wrote: Before I say anythign daft, what's '+'? It does not appear to be special on my system. it's interpreted by mkfs in its proto file to mean all the substructure of a directory. see mkfs(8). Thanks. I looked

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread erik quanstrom
[what] does mkext stand for), and make extract, i assume. file /bin/mkfs /bin/mkfs: cannot open: '/bin/mkfs' file does not exist Dude, like, huh? you must have missed the first few lines of the man page disk/mkfs [-aprvxU] [-d root] [-n name] [-s source] [-u

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:50:08 -0400 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: [what] does mkext stand for), and make extract, i assume. file /bin/mkfs /bin/mkfs: cannot open: '/bin/mkfs' file does not exist Dude, like, huh? you must have missed the first few lines

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread Steve Simon
...c-stoff/t-stoff powered rocket... oblique UK reference I watched OU programs as a child too :-) /oblique UK reference I suggest you consider why you are moving directories about, I have just got out of the habit. If I get a tar or a zip which contains dome data I need I just mount it with

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:00:43 +0100 Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: ...c-stoff/t-stoff powered rocket... oblique UK reference I watched OU programs as a child too :-) /oblique UK reference I didn't, my parents would never have a TV. ::) I got that from a book, The World's Worst

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread erik quanstrom
Sure. Let me get a modest little cybernetic interface to one of those temporal vision thingummabobs they have these days and I'll call you right back. Sorry if that was a bit harsh, but I've had far too much 'advice' to 'just do this easy little thing'... Computers are supposed to

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread Dan Cross
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Ethan Grammatikidiseeke...@fastmail.fm wrote: Sorry if that was a bit harsh, but I've had far too much 'advice' to 'just do this easy little thing'... Computers are supposed to supplement the brain, to help, not require more (and in some cases quite

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:19:16 -0400 Dan Cross cro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Ethan Grammatikidiseeke...@fastmail.fm wrote: Sorry if that was a bit harsh, but I've had far too much 'advice' to 'just do this easy little thing'... Computers are supposed to supplement

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread Jason Catena
I've been thinking for a while that I don't quite like directories, as organizing metadata. Too restrictive: you can only really choose one place, to find something you already have to know where to look (or search through everything), and if you choose long, comprehensible names, your unique set

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread Jack Johnson
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:41 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: on coraid's worm, a find on main takes not too long: minooka; cd /n/ila minooka; time rc -c 'find . | wc'  356164  356164 13987863 1.24u 1.38s 6.65r        rc -c find . | wc The FAQ also mentions: du -a . | grep

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread erik quanstrom
minooka; time rc -c 'du -a . | wc' On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:41 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: on coraid's worm, a find on main takes not too long: minooka; cd /n/ila minooka; time rc -c 'find . | wc'  356164  356164 13987863 1.24u 1.38s 6.65r        rc -c find . | wc

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-20 Thread Dan Cross
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:56 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: i know you can do it with du, but it seems a bit cat -nish to me. for comparison: This was why I wrote 'walk' a few years ago; du is the disk usage tool, not a general file walker. - Dan C.

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-19 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sun Jul 19 12:26:24 EDT 2009, eeke...@fastmail.fm wrote: I was never satisfied with dircp. It's practice of copying the contents of one directory into another seemed limiting at best, obstructive at worst. The recursive copy options of Gnu cp seemed much more elegant(!), preserving the

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-19 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
{echo +} works just fine. On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Richard Miller9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: i keep /tmp/allproto around with the contents of '+'. There's also one in /sys/lib/sysconfig/proto/allproto, but that takes longer to type.

Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

2009-07-19 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:05:04 -0400 erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Sun Jul 19 12:26:24 EDT 2009, eeke...@fastmail.fm wrote: I was never satisfied with dircp. It's practice of copying the contents of one directory into another seemed limiting at best, obstructive at worst.