OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT] Recursive dir (linux)

• Posted by ags <eu at 531pi.co.nz> Oct 16, 2006
• 566 views

ChrisBurch2 wrote:
> 
> ChrisBurch2 wrote:
> > 
> > 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 \;
> 
> groan - that should have worked, just found its only copying the *.exu s. Oh
> separate lines in a script it is then.

Hi Chris

I don't have a tailor-made solution for you, but another way to do this is with
tar, eg:

tar cvf - ~/euphoria/*.e* | tar xf - -C ~/tempdir

(Will make a folder 'euphoria' under tempdir)

This is how they recommend you do this over separate filesystems too.

Gary