cp command

[Igor Sovin]

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

[Fabian Briseño]

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

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

[Igor Sovin]

sorry :-)

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

[Sandman! · Accepted solution]

Excerpt from the cpio man page...

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

[Rajeev Shukla]

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

[Rajeev Shukla]

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 .

[Mridul Shrivastava]

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

[Stefan Schulz]

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

[Hareesh Kumar]

Hi,

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

Try and revert..

Hareesh