Igor Peshansky wrote:
Nope, you didn't have to. Something like
(cd "$2/.." && find "$2" -name "*.$1" | tar cfT - -) | tar xfC - "$3"
would do the job of "XCOPY /S" using POSIX means.
If you go POSIX, you can use the --keep-newer-files tar option.
Of course it didn't. Please read a good bash tutorial, or the "Special
Parameters" section of the bash manpage.
Hi Igor and Mark,
Thank you very much for the quick reply.
I was initially using
tar -cf - `find "$source_dir" -name "*.$file_ext" -print` | ( cd "$dest_dir" &&
tar xBf - )
but it had a problem with path names with spaces. Obviously being not that good
in bash scripting, I couldn't get over that issue. So that was why I decided to
use the XCOPY command. I will use your method and see. Thanks again.
I made a silly mistake in my former email. I was actually checking $?
(not $!) for the exit code, but it didn't work. But I saw in a later reply from
Mark that it worked for him. I will check it again. Maybe I was doing something
silly.
thanks again
Regards
Shane
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