Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:55:21 +0100
Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:

> >Before I say anythign daft, what's '+'? It does not appear to be special on my system.
>
> it's interpreted by mkfs in its proto file to mean all the substructure of a directory.
> see mkfs(8).
>

Thanks. I looked over the man page last night & somehow missed the "Mkfs copies only those files that are out of date" part. Ah... that part would be more relevant to cej than me.

I'm primarily concerned with moving dirs and I already know what tar does. Mkfs seemed very confusing at first, it's confusingly-named for one thing (it does not make filesystems & wtf does mkext stand for), and IMHO default destinations belong in a script, not a compiled binary. Also I'm absurdly pleased with how terse dcp is. Apart from the option check there are 4 lines of code. :)

I have half a mind to write a new script using mkfs to get the functionality cej would like, but:

	file /bin/mkfs
	/bin/mkfs: cannot open: '/bin/mkfs' file does not exist

Dude, like, huh?

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Ethan Grammatikidis

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