Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 12:58:38 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copying directories contents Message-ID: <20021001175837.GF7147@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200210010955.35018.akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> References: <200210010955.35018.akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
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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 - ) 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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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