Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:03:46 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copying directories contents Message-ID: <20021001180346.GA39309@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20021001175837.GF7147@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200210010955.35018.akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> <20021001175837.GF7147@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 12:58:38PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 01), Beech Rintoul said: > > 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. > > tar cf - user1 user2 user3 user4 | ( cd /destination ; tar xpf - ) To avoid starting an extra shell process you can also do: tar cf - user1 user2 user3 user4 | tar xpf - -C /destination > > Change "tar xpf" to "tar xpkf" if you don't want to overwrite exisitng > files in the destination directory. > > "cp -r" might work also; I have never tried it when the destination was > aready populated with files, though. "cp -r" won't work well with symlinks. ("cp" will copy the file the symlink points to, while tar will make a new symlink in the destination directory.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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