From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: copying a directory to same level
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:12:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <100821091237.ZM31306@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xns9DDBA4E47D3B3zzappergmailcom@80.91.229.10>
On Aug 21, 3:12pm, zzapper wrote:
}
} (Hope this is not too dumb)
Not dumb, but it's a "cp" thing rather than a shell thing.
} >cp -r vim73 vim/
}
} if directory vim does not exist then it does what I want.
} However if vim/ already exists then vim73/ will be created as a sub-directory
} in vim/ eg vim/vim73
Referring to the "cp" documentation (GNU "info" in this case):
If the last argument names an existing directory, `cp' copies each
SOURCE file into that directory (retaining the same name).
Consequently what you want is:
cp -r vim73/. vim
which will change "." to "vim" if "vim" doesn't already exist, and copy
the contents of vim73/. into vim/. if "vim" already does exist.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-21 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-21 15:12 zzapper
2010-08-21 15:33 ` Mikael Magnusson
2010-08-21 15:36 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2010-08-21 16:12 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2010-08-22 12:51 ` zzapper
2010-08-22 18:32 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
2010-08-22 18:36 ` Benjamin R. Haskell
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