On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 04:06:18AM -0400, Jerry Hatok wrote:
I am trying to copy files from a cd I have into my usr directory. The cd has one directory with a lot of subdirectories and files. Is there a command that I can copy everything at once? If so what is it? If not what would you suggest being the fastest way to copy everything?
There's many, many ways of doing this sort of thing under Unix. Assuming that your CD Rom is mounted under /cdrom and you want to copy everything onto /home/jerry/cdimage then:
% cd /cdrom % mkdir /home/jerry/cdimage % tar -cvf - . | ( cd /home/jerry/cdimage ; tar -xvpf - )
However there are any number of commands you could substitute for that 3rd line:
% find . -depth -print | cpio -pdmu /home/jerry/cdimage
or, if you're installed the net/rsync port:
% rsync -avx --delete /cdrom/ /home/jerry/cdimage/
Are these not a little bit of overkill? Seems to me (in this case) it could be as simple as:
cp -Rp /cdrom/ /home/jerry/
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