Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:49:20 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying directories contents Message-ID: <20021001194920.212935D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:55:34 -0800." <200210010955.35018.akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>
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> From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> > Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:55:34 -0800 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. /usr/ports/net/rsync? It is vastly more efficient than copying file-by-file or even than using rat(1) and copying the single file. rsync(1) must be installed on both systems. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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