From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 15:18:33 +0100
From: Nigel Roles ngr@symbionics.co.uk
Subject: Copying files..
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>
> 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