From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Is there `cp -r fdir/ tdir/` equivalent?
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 23:50:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070803215055.GA85095@shodan.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <acd65fa20708031442x7aafef23o815f69ceba133c57@mail.gmail.com>
* Alexandre Vassalotti (alexandre@peadrop.com) wrote:
> The only thing that slightly bothers me, is that the standard Unix
> tools I am used to are relatively minimal.
Why not using the standard Plan 9 tools instead?
>
> Anyway, all that to ask if there is an equivalent of `cp -r fdir/
> tdir/` for making a copy of a directory. If not then it is not a
> problem, I will just add the recursive option to cp(1) myself.
More seriously, the normal approach would be using tar. This and some more
can be found in the 9fans archives or at
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/UNIX_to_Plan_9_command_translation/index.html .
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-03 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-03 21:42 Alexandre Vassalotti
2007-08-03 21:43 ` Gorka Guardiola
2007-08-03 21:45 ` Kris Maglione
2007-08-05 0:50 ` Alexandre Vassalotti
2007-08-03 21:50 ` Martin Neubauer [this message]
2007-08-03 22:16 ` geoff
2007-08-05 0:50 ` Alexandre Vassalotti
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