Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:06:36 +0930 From: Tim Peters <tim@lost.net.au> To: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying directories contents Message-ID: <20021002003636.GA72811@adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <200210010955.35018.akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> References: <200210010955.35018.akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
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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. -tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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