Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:10:16 +0200 From: "Singh, Ajith (ZA - Pietermaritzburg)" <ASingh@DigitalXP.co.za> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Copying a directory hierarchy Message-ID: <20041222231016.B65CC83221@seadragon.mweb.co.za>
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Have you tried pax -rw . destination_dir ?
AJITH SINGH
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert
Sent: 22 December 2004 03:51 PM
To: Mike Jeays
Cc: Robert Huff; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Copying a directory hierarchy
Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 21:08, Robert Huff wrote:
> > Mike Jeays writes:
> >
> > > How does on copy a complete directory hierarchy, including any hidden
> > > files?
> > >
> > > "cp -rp" leaves them out.
> >
> > cp -rp *
> > cp -rp .*
> This doesn't copy hidden files in lower-level directories, only in the
> top level. Thanks for the suggestion - a good idea that doesn't quite
> do it.
It works for me...
temp> type -a rm
rm is /bin/rm
temp> mkdir -p a/b/c/d/e
temp> touch a/b/c/d/.hidden a/b/c/d/e/.hidden-too
temp> cp -r a f
temp> find a f
a
a/b
a/b/c
a/b/c/d
a/b/c/d/e
a/b/c/d/e/.hidden-too
a/b/c/d/.hidden
f
f/b
f/b/c
f/b/c/d
f/b/c/d/e
f/b/c/d/e/.hidden-too
f/b/c/d/.hidden
temp>
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