[Chicago-talk] Merging two dir's into a third

Don Drake don at drakeconsult.com
Wed Feb 18 12:56:13 CST 2004


This will work:

# cd dira 
# tar cvf - *  | (cd ../dirc; tar xvf -)
# cd ../dirb
# tar cvf - *  | (cd ../dirc; tar xvf -)

-Don

> -----Original Message-----
> From: chicago-talk-bounces at mail.pm.org
> [mailto:chicago-talk-bounces at mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of Shawn C Carroll
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 12:32 PM
> To: chicago-talk at mail.pm.org
> Subject: [Chicago-talk] Merging two dir's into a third
> 
> 
> 
> I'm gonna ask before I go write something...
> 
> Is there a way to take two dir tree's with simular structure and merge
> them into a third tree?
> 
> I've seen some pointers to diff, but I don't want to compare 
> files ( none
> are gonna match ) I just want to be able to take
> dira/apple/this.txt
> and
> dirb/apple/that.txt
> 
> and end up with
> 
> dirc/apple/this.txt
> dirc/apple/that.txt
> 
> -- 
> Shawn Carroll
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