topic Re: cp command in Operating System - HP-UX

cp command

Igor Sovin — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:03:29 GMT

Hi!
I have a problem that seems to be very easy to solve, at first sight.

How to cp all directories beginning with . from / to some other directory?

Best regards
Igor

Re: cp command

Fabian Briseño — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:13:37 GMT

Hello Igor.
YOu can use the folliwng command to do what you want

cp -p -R .from* /tmp
where /tmp is the destination address

Re: cp command

Igor Sovin — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:26:29 GMT

sorry :-)

I mean all directories beginnig with .
from - means from root directory /
from is not directory name

Re: cp command

Sandman! — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:31:47 GMT

Excerpt from the cpio man page...

# man cpio
...
Duplicate a directory hierarchy:
cd olddir
find . -depth -print | cpio -pd newdir
...

Re: cp command

Rajeev Shukla — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:36:36 GMT

i would do something like this to be on the safer side
cd /
for i in `ls -ld .[a-z]*|grep ^d|awk '{print $9}'`
do
cp -rp $i /destinationDIR
done

Re: cp command

Rajeev Shukla — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:40:42 GMT

If you have directory with names starting from say .A to .Z or .1 etc.. then change the line to something like this
ls -ld .[aA1-zZ0]*|grep ^d|awk '{print $9}'
Just try running this command from / and you'll see all the directories starting with .

Re: cp command

Mridul Shrivastava — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:54:09 GMT

The directory "." means the present working dorectory and ".." means the parent directories so these can't be moved...

Re: cp command

Stefan Schulz — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 01:35:16 GMT

Hi,

the most pragmatic way is to use

cp -rp .??*

but with the limitation that it will not copy directories with one character names and also will copy all files beginning with a dot.

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan

Re: cp command

Hareesh Kumar — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 02:17:46 GMT

Hi,

Use the command from /
# find . -depth|cpio -pvxdm

Try and revert..

Hareesh