On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> In a message dated: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:49:57 EDT
> "Lee D. Rothstein" said:
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> >>Are you sure you're using the Gnu 'cp'?
> >>My Debian man page has it mentioned and
> >>it seems to work for me.
> >
> >==
> >
> >No stinkin '--reply' option for:
>
In a message dated: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:49:57 EDT
"Lee D. Rothstein" said:
>>Are you sure you're using the Gnu 'cp'?
>>My Debian man page has it mentioned and
>>it seems to work for me.
>
>==
>
>No stinkin '--reply' option for:
>
>
>cp, on Redhat:
>--
>
Seeya Paul said: ;-)
>Are you sure you're using the Gnu 'cp'?
>My Debian man page has it mentioned and
>it seems to work for me.
==
No stinkin '--reply' option for:
cp, on Redhat:
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$ cp --version
cp (fileutils) 4.1
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, Dav
As long as you're in learning mode, allow me to point
out that your examples will fail with filenames that
(as is all too common) contain whitespace.
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In a message dated: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 10:41:37 EDT
"Lee D. Rothstein" said:
># cp -a --reply=yes $1 $2/ && rm -fR $1 # '--reply' not recognized
Are you sure you're using the Gnu 'cp'? My Debian man page has it
mentioned and it seems to work for me.
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Seeya,
Paul
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Results of the merge move suggestions & testing:
Thanks, youse guys.
I've always wanted to use the '&&' construction && now I have!
10Q,
too2Lee, yours ;-)
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# Merge Move -- mmv
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# cp -a $1 $2 && rm -rf $1 # Woiks!
# cp -r $1/* c # Doesn't work
# cp -a -
In a message dated: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 15:51:24 EDT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>"cp" under Linux has become somewhat powerful; the following worked fine
>for me:
>
>cp -a a c && rm -rf a
>
>Copy, recursively and with permissions, etc., retained, dir "a" into c;
>then, if the copy worked, blow away a.
"Lee D. Rothstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In brief, I want the merge to move
> everything from 'a' into 'c',
> overwriting all like-named files, and
> merging everything else
Perhaps something like:
cp -r a/* c
does what you want?
Regards,
--kevin
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"cp" under Linux has become somewhat powerful; the following worked fine
for me:
cp -a a c && rm -rf a
Copy, recursively and with permissions, etc., retained, dir "a" into c;
then, if the copy worked, blow away a. Note that it will overwrite your
stuff, though I think if you have "noclobber" set
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
> At various different times 'mv' alone; or 'cp' followed by an 'rm' would
> do this, but alas, no more.
>
> In brief, I want the merge to move everything from 'a' into 'c',
> overwriting all like-named files, and merging everything else
>
> Example:
>
One approach might be to just have one instance of
tar (standing in the source directory) squirt all
the files over to another instance that's standing
in the destination directory, maybe like this:
cd srcDir ; tar cf - . | tar xf - -C destDir
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I want to be able to merge one
sub-directory tree over another. I used
to be able to do this before the
posuxide of GNU/UNIX. [In the past I've
been very impressed with how GNU
utility writers have offered POSIX
stuff, and alternatives allowing users
to decide on how many PSI (POSIX
Sucking Idiocie
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