From: zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Copying certain subdirectories retaining structure
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:33:20 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XnsA2DEE579736DFdavidrayninfocouk@80.91.229.13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140223071542.GA25203@lilyforest>
lilydjwg <lilydjwg@gmail.com> wrote in news:20140223071542.GA25203
@lilyforest:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 08:06:32PM +0000, zzapper wrote:
>> I want to copy all files in subdirectories named /good/ to a USB while
>> retaining directory structure
>>
>> /aaa/pic/good
>> /aan/dogs/good/
>> /dir1/dir2/dir3/good/
>
> I always find tar is great for copying lots of files:
>
> tar c **/good(/) | tar xv -C /media/usbkey
>
The 3 answers demonstrate the versatility of *nix.
thanks!
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-24 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-22 20:06 zzapper
2014-02-22 21:40 ` Philippe Troin
2014-02-22 22:02 ` zzapper
2014-02-23 3:22 ` Ray Andrews
2014-02-23 7:15 ` lilydjwg
2014-02-24 22:33 ` zzapper [this message]
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