Actually, the 'flying tar' you mention is approximately how I copy whole directories from one place to another.<br>
<br>
"cp -R dir1 dir2" also works, but it will create dir1 and all
sub-directories in the tree in dir2, so it's a little tricky to get
exactly right sometimes.<br>
<br>
-- CHS<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/12/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Freemyer</b> <<a href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com">greg.freemyer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
All,<br> <br> I'm trying to do something a little strange.<br> <br> I am working on a shell script that in the middle of it needs to copy<br> files (individually) from dir1 to dir2.<br> <br> The trouble is that there is directory structure below dir1 that I<br>
want to recreate in dir2.<br> <br> Any ideas?<br> <br> Now that I'm thinking, maybe:<br> <br> cd dir1<br> tar -cf - $relative-path | (cd dir2; tar -xf -)<br> cd dir2<br> <br> I'll go experiment, but if anyone knows a better way or the specific<br>
args for this way, I would appreciate it.<br> <br> Thanks<br> Greg<br> --<br> Greg Freemyer<br> Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist<br> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer">http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer</a><br>
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