Re: cp sucks or do I not know enough?

[Larry Irwin]

The --reply=yes is not needed if you are using the binary executable "cp" If your "cp" is an alias, other issues arise... check ~/.bash*, /etc/bash* and /etc/profile   These samples work with "cp" and not the bash alias to "cp"...   #Copy a bunch of files to current location cp /foo/* .   #Recursively copy files and directories and, to the extent possible, maintain permissions and ownership cd /foo cp -Rp * /destinationdirectory      -or- cd /foo find . -depth -print | cpio -pmud /destinationdirectory   #Provide a list of files that would be copied via either of the 2 recursive copies shown above cd /foo find . -depth -print   ----- Original Message ----- From: Anil Gupte To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 2:33 PM Subject: cp sucks or do I not know enough? I have read man cp and cp --help (same thing), but I cannot figure out how to shorten this:   cp --reply=yes /foo/* .   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.   Still learning, Anil Gupte P.S. Thanx for any advice