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

[Mike Pastore]

Am I missing something??

	$ mkdir -p dira/apple dirb/apple dirc
	$ touch dira/apple/this.txt dirb/apple/that.txt
	$ cp -r dira/* dirb/* dirc/
	$ ls dirc/apple/
	that.txt  this.txt

Use `cp -i' for prompting. Use `cp -f' and change your directory order
to prioritize one directory over another (ie, copy dirb first then
overwrite it with dira).

--
Mike Pastore
mike at oobak.org

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 17:20, Steven Lembark wrote:
> -- Don Drake <don at drakeconsult.com>
> 
> > However, my example will return 0 if the disk fills, because the command
> > "tar cvf - *" was successful, and the rest of the commands were piped and
> > failed.
> >
> > Wrapping the entire line in parentheses "(tar cvf - *  | (cd ../dirc; tar
> > xvf -) )" would fix that.
> 
> Or using "find . | cpio -pdv". This is a bit more
> effecient also because you don't need to encode and
> decode the file or move it over the pipe through
> kernel buffers.
> 
> 
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