Anil Gupte wrote:
I have read man cp and cp --help (same thing), but I cannot figure out
how to shorten this:
cp --reply=yes /foo/* .
I think you want -i
No -u does not work as expected and nor does -f
Also, is there an equivalent of xcopy and I mean all the features.
For example, in Dos/Win I am used to using, say:
xcopy /s/e/d/y \foo\*.xyz \boo
and sometimes
xcopy /s/e/d/y/l \foo\*.xyz \boo
(the /l gives me a list of files that would be copied without actually
copying them). Basically I would like to copy the entire directory
structure.
I don't know anything about xcopy, but to copy an entire directory
structure you can use cp -r (recursive). You can use ls to see a list
of all the files you are going to copy, then replace it with cp to
actually do the copy. Example:
ls /foo/*.xyz # To see the files it will select
cp /foo/*.xyz /boo
Also, make sure to use the forwardslash "/" instead of the backslash "\"
in unix/linux environments.
Jason Martens
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