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From: Nigel Roles ngr@symbionics.co.uk
Subject: Copying files..
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 15:18:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19960819141833.M3BjAoB0fpc2bNE9xQr6JG-LWFqUrXxnmZFRoutWoE8@z> (raw)

>
> I have been able to mount the CD-ROM (thanks to Nigel). I want to
> copy selected subtrees to hard-disk. Cp command has no -[rR] flag
> so how do I do it?
>    cp source-subtree dest-subtree
>
>

Now this one I can get right. Real programmers don't use cp -r!

{cd source-subtree; tar c .} | {cd dest-subtree; tar x}

or see

http://plan9.att.com/magic/man2html/1/tar

Nigel Roles




             reply	other threads:[~1996-08-19 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-08-19 14:18 Nigel [this message]
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1996-08-19 15:57 David
1996-08-19 14:26 forsyth
1996-08-19 13:54 Ishwar

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