> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:06:36 +0930 > From: Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:55:34AM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > > I'm need to take the contents including dotfiles from about 300 user > > directories and move them into another set of identical directories on > > another filesystem. Is there an easy script to do this? I dont want to > > overwrite the contents of the target directories just add to them. > > Both filesystems are mounted on the source machine. > > i know people have already answered this, but noone mentioned the > incredibly simple: > > # pax -rw /source /destination > > probably because it's not very portable - i only see pax(1) on > freebsd machines here.
As far as I know, pax(1) is required for POSIX compliance. I've seen it on a great many systems including a couple that were not remotely Unix. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
