In the last episode (Oct 01), Beech Rintoul said:
> 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.
tar cf - user1 user2 user3 user4 | ( cd /destination ; tar xpf - )
Change "tar xpf" to "tar xpkf" if you don't want to overwrite exisitng
files in the destination directory.
"cp -r" might work also; I have never tried it when the destination was
aready populated with files, though.
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Dan Nelson
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