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/ That last one is particularly good if you've already got a partial copy in the destination directory, as it will avoid copying stuff it doesn't need to, and it will remove stuff under the destination not present in the source. None of these will be particularly faster than any of the others if you're copying from scratch -- the limiting factor should be the IO bandwidth of your hardware. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
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