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According to Todd Andrews on 12/6/2007 11:13 PM:
Hello,
> I'd like to suggest a new feature be added to cp called --flatten that
> would remove all paths from the source files/directories and copy the
> file to the destination directory.
>
> cp -pr --flatten data -t alldata
Thanks for the suggestion. However, it seems like this is already
possible with existing tools, so why add the bloat?
find data -type f -exec cp -pr -t alldata {}+
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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