Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

Tim locke wrote: > I need to copy a whole subdirectory to another > subdirectory...possible? (i.e. cp /home/user1/file > /home/user2/file) as a regular user. How about cp -r? Or better yet: cp -a. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ pgpVrzdPt

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

Tim locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to copy a whole subdirectory to another > subdirectory...possible? (i.e. cp /home/user1/file > /home/user2/file) as a regular user. ^ If you're getting access denied errors, you probably don't have write permission

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

not access denied errors. I need to copy a subdirectory located in a public directory to my home directory...I can copy the files one by one but I'd rather copy the whole subdirectory itself to my home directory... __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:35:11PM -0800, Tim locke wrote: > not access denied errors. I need to copy a > subdirectory > located in a public directory to my home directory...I > can copy the files one by one but I'd rather copy the > whole subdirectory itself to my home directory... Have you tried

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

Have you tried cp -r path/dirname newpath ? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Programming

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:52:55PM -0800, Tim locke decreed: > I need to copy a whole subdirectory to another > subdirectory...possible? (i.e. cp /home/user1/file > /home/user2/file) as a regular user. ---end quoted text--- For the most accurate reproduction of a directory tree consider using the

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

Steve Cooper wrote: > For the most accurate reproduction of a directory tree consider using > the tar command: > > tar cf - . | (cd "$1"; tar xvf -) > I always thought that: tar cf - . | (cd "$1"; tar xpvf -) was the correct way. The one time I forgot the -p during extraction, I had permi

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

Hi, The short answer is: # cd /path/to/old/directory # find . -depth -print0 | afio -p -xv -0a /mount/point/of/new/directory Now for the long answer. The candidates are: cp: Traditionally, cp was not really a candidate since it did not derenference symbolic lin

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

On Sunday 20 January 2002 1:01 am, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > The short answer is: > > # cd /path/to/old/directory > # find . -depth -print0 | afio -p -xv -0a /mount/point/of/new/directory > > Now for the long answer. The candidates are: What about rsync -- Alan - [EMAIL P

Re: Copying a whole subdirectory possible?

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 07:01:27PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > The short answer is: > > # cd /path/to/old/directory > # find . -depth -print0 | afio -p -xv -0a /mount/point/of/new/directory [ snip ] > afio: >Afio is a better way of dealing with cpio-format archives