Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 21:14:06 +0200 From: Marc Perisa <perisa@porsche.de> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: Copying directories contents Message-ID: <3D99F3FE.4070801@porsche.de> References: <20021001140103.G2271-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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Peter Leftwich wrote:
>
> I have often run into a similar situation. There doesn't seem to be a
> command line or GUI file explorer you can use to "stitch together" source
> directories and subdirectories into the target directory. For example, if
> you have differing files but in the same exact folder tree structure, is
> there a command to weave (mv) the files in? This would be a scheme that
> favors only files and that runs a "test" of basically saying "is the
> directory there already? yes, then mv this file into it, no, then create it
> and move this file into it..." but on a wider scale.
>
# NOT TESTED!
# little script, should work in ksh (and zsh && bash)
SOURCE=/your/source/dir
TARGET=/your/target/dir
for i in `cd ${SOURCE}; find . -type d`; do
if [[ -d $TARGET/$i ]] ; then
mv $SOURCE/$i/* $TARGET/$i/ ;
else
mv $SOURCE/$i $TARGET/ ;
fi
;
done
Before the mv you can actually test the files (or subdirs) for size,
mtime, atime, ....
But be careful as stated in the mv(1) man page:
As the rename(2) call does not work across file systems, mv uses cp(1)
and rm(1) to accomplish the move. The effect is equivalent to:
rm -f destination_path && \
cp -pRP source_file destination && \
rm -rf source_file
Perhaps you should read some tutorials about shell programming - it can
come in really handy.
Hope that helps
Marc
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