Combine directories

John W. Krahn wrote: It doesn't look THAT great. You're right John. I probably used my limited knowledge of Perl and a lot of books to redo this script so that it worked exactly the way I wanted. But, it works great for me! I do appreciate your correcting the syntax though. It helps in

RE: Combine directories

Chris Devers asked: Why aren't you using rsync for this? Excellent question. It's because I'd never heard of rsync before. That's why I'm on this list. Because I learn something new everyday. I've since asked someone here who's familiar with that product to test it out for me and he said it w

Re: Combine directories

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, John W. Krahn wrote: > So it wasn't that bad of an example. I still prefer this though: $ rsync dir1 dir2 targetdir Yours is still way too verbose :-) -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Combine directories

So the sub directories in DirA will be combined with like-named sub directories in DirB and they will move up a level in the hierarchy. Untested: Why not use File::Copy::Recursive's dircopy() it has been tested and its simpler (to develop code and maintain it later or if you inherit the job) :)

Re: Combine directories

John W. Krahn wrote: Debbie Cooper wrote: I have the following script for combining txt files in a directory but I don't know the Perl syntax well enough to apply it to combining directories (if I can modify this script for that purpose). I've done an extensive web search but haven't found much

Re: Combine directories

Debbie Cooper wrote: I need to combine directories as follows: Source directory structure: DirA SubDirAA More directories SubDirAB More directories SubDirAC More directories DirB SubDirAA More

Re: Combine directories

I want to copy these directories so that the target directory looks like this: Target directory structure SubDirAA combined directories SubDirAB combined directories SubDirAC combined directories SubDirBC combined directories How about this (or a variation for your

Re: Combine directories

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Debbie Cooper wrote: > So the sub directories in DirA will be combined with like-named sub > directories in DirB and they will move up a level in the hierarchy. Why aren't you using rsync for this? You can write it by hand in Perl, but rsync is the Swiss Army knife of file

Combine directories

I need to combine directories as follows: Source directory structure: DirA SubDirAA More directories SubDirAB More directories SubDirAC More directories DirB SubDirAA More directories SubDirAB