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John Chambers wrote: > > | cp -r -p <src> <dest> to copy recursively and preserves file > | attributes. > > One thing missing from this is that novices are usually rather > surprised and disappointed that, if <src> is a directory, this > doesn't make <dest> a copy of <src>. Rather, it creates a > subdirectory of <dest> named the same as <src> and puts the files > there. This is almost always not what was expected. There has never > been a simple way to get the unix cp command to simply copy one > directory to another. ... > The cleanest way to make <dest> into a copy of <src> is with a tar or > cpio command. For example: > > tar cf - <src> | (cd <dest>; tar xpf -) > or > find <src> -print | cpio -pdum <dst> Actually, I like to use the "rsync" command to do this; it solves the problem as such (from the rsync man page): rsync -avz foo:src/bar /data/tmp this would recursively transfer all files from the direc- tory src/bar on the machine foo into the /data/tmp/bar directory on the local machine. The files are transferred ... rsync -avz foo:src/bar/ /data/tmp a trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to transfer all files from the directory src/bar on the machine foo into the /data/tmp/. A trailing / on a source name means "copy the contents of this directory". Without a trailing slash it means "copy the directory". This dif- Note that you can use rsync to transfer files on the same host also; just don't specify any other hosts. So to copy the contents of src into dst: rsync -av src/ dst --grg
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