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Old 11-04-2002, 02:18 PM   #1
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copy directorys

How to copy directorys + contents with suse linux?
 
Old 11-04-2002, 02:34 PM   #2
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cp -a

So, let's say you want to copy /usr to /home/usr (which you really DON'T EVER want to do IMO)

cp -a /usr /home/usr

This should work...

Cool
 
Old 11-04-2002, 03:28 PM   #3
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Also "man cp" is your friend!
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Old 11-04-2002, 04:51 PM   #4
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A safer way, if you want everything to be exactly the same is:

cd /path/to/source/dir
tar cf - . | (cd /path/to/destination/dir; tar xvf -)

This preserves symlinks, modification time, etc.
 
Old 11-05-2002, 02:12 AM   #5
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cool. thx. it worked
 
  


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