Re: [OT] Recursive dir (linux)

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Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:47:11 -0700, ChrisBurch2
> <guest at RapidEuphoria.com> wrote:
> 
> >Anyone know of a quick way to recursively copy a directory tree under linux
> >with filemasking.
> >
> >cp -R ~/euphoria/*.e* ~/tmpdir
> >
> >does not work, and only copies the top level.
> what does cp -a give you?
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
Hi

Just the top level. But heres how to do it - find was the key.

find ~/euphoria -iname "*.e" -o -iname "*.ex" -o -iname "*.exu"  -exec cp
--parents '{}' ~/eutemp \;

Chris
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