From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:32:32 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-Id: <20090720023232.712b6a8a.eekee57@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <98cebc1b264b2abd2ef45bbae256d9b1@quanstro.net> References: <20090719172415.b7279d56.eekee57@fastmail.fm> <98cebc1b264b2abd2ef45bbae256d9b1@quanstro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp Topicbox-Message-UUID: 27dff78c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:05:04 -0400 erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sun Jul 19 12:26:24 EDT 2009, eekee57@fastmail.fm wrote: > > I was never satisfied with dircp. It's practice of copying the contents > > of one directory into another seemed limiting at best, obstructive at > > worst. The recursive copy options of Gnu cp seemed much more elegant(!), > > preserving the usual option syntax of cp and merely extending it slightly > > to include directories. > > see mkfs(8). i keep /tmp/allproto around with the contents of '+'. > though i can't remember the last time i used it. Before I say anythign daft, what's '+'? It does not appear to be special on my system. -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.