Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 12:28:36 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Tim Peters <tim@lost.net.au> Cc: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying directories contents Message-ID: <20021002192836.C86045D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 10:06:36 %2B0930." <20021002003636.GA72811@adelaide.edu.au>
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> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:06:36 +0930 > From: Tim Peters <tim@lost.net.au> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:55:34AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > I'm need to take the contents including dotfiles from about 300 user > > directories and move them into another set of identical directories on > > another filesystem. Is there an easy script to do this? I dont want to > > overwrite the contents of the target directories just add to them. > > Both filesystems are mounted on the source machine. > > i know people have already answered this, but noone mentioned the > incredibly simple: > > # pax -rw /source /destination > > probably because it's not very portable - i only see pax(1) on > freebsd machines here. As far as I know, pax(1) is required for POSIX compliance. I've seen it on a great many systems including a couple that were not remotely Unix. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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