[Chicago-talk] Merging two dir's into a third
Young, Aaron
Aaron.Young at citadelgroup.com
Wed Feb 18 12:54:25 CST 2004
you may want to just tar one directory and then untar it into the other
if there aren't any clashes, this should work out pretty well
though you may want to keep a backup tar of both diretories just in case
Aaron F Young
Broker Reconciliation
Operations & Portfolio Finance
Citadel Investment Group LLC
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn C Carroll [mailto:shawn at owbn.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 12:47 PM
> To: Chicago.pm chatter
> Cc: Chicago.pm chatter
> Subject: Re: [Chicago-talk] Merging two dir's into a third
>
>
>
> Randal L. Schwartz said:
> >>>>>> "Shawn" == Shawn C Carroll <shawn at owbn.org> writes:
> >
> > Shawn> I'm gonna ask before I go write something...
> >
> > Shawn> Is there a way to take two dir tree's with simular
> structure and
> > merge
> > Shawn> them into a third tree?
> >
> > Shawn> I've seen some pointers to diff, but I don't want to
> compare files
> > ( none
> > Shawn> are gonna match ) I just want to be able to take
> > Shawn> dira/apple/this.txt
> > Shawn> and
> > Shawn> dirb/apple/that.txt
> >
> > Shawn> and end up with
> >
> > Shawn> dirc/apple/this.txt
> > Shawn> dirc/apple/that.txt
> >
> > What do you do when the filenames *do* match?
> >
> > What do you do when a filename of one is a directory name
> of the other?
> >
>
> In this case, neither is an issue. But, in the first case
> then I'd take
> dira over dirb. In the second, that isn't a case I have deal with in
> these dir's
>
>
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