Sys V does not have a recursive copy cmd...
Sven L Eriksson
sven-e at obelix.UUCP
Mon Jan 5 02:47:04 AEST 1987
In article <1964 at ptsfa.UUCP> jmc at ptsfa.UUCP (Jerry Carlin) writes:
>In article <1269 at cadovax.UUCP> mitchell at cadovax.UUCP (Mitchell Lerner) writes:
>>
>>... System V does not have a cp that does recursive copies...
>
>Try "find . -print|cpio -pduvm /foo/bar/...".
>
Another way to do this copy is to use tar. (Tape file ARchiver)
tar cf - . | (cd todir ; tar xf - )
If you use this command links between files in the tree will be kept.
Otherwise it will work exactly as the find|cpio version.
Wich version is fastest?
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Sven L Eriksson
University of Linkoping
Sweden
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