Hi Kath, Perhaps this is what what your are looking for? Just substitute your dirs for my testdirs. Phil Kath wrote: > > I need some help making a small script file. What I need it do is copy the > directories on one HD to another. > > the source directory is /mnt/DOS_hda1/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs/ > > the destination directory is /home/httpd/html/ > > - Kathy > > _______________________________________________ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
#!/bin/bash cd /root/testdir for i in `ls` do cp -r $i /root/testdir2 done cd /root/testdir2 ls -R testdir2 | more
