copy files from here to there...

[Ron Irving]

Ok...here's what I need: I have to copy a bunch of files, (about 1300,) from point a to point b. What's the easiest way to do that?

eg: /dir/dir1/files
--to--
/dir3/files

Thanks a HEAP in advance

Ron Irving

[Rodney Hills]

A quick way is to.

cd /dir1/dir2
tar cf - . | (cd /dir3 ; tar xf - )

This will keep all permissions and ownerships.
Unfortunately it does not carry over ACLs.

-- Rod Hills

[JACQUET]

1?)
# cd /dir/dir1/files ; cp -rp ./ /dir3/files

2?)
# cd /dir/dir1/files ;
# tar cvpf - ./ | ( cd /dir3/files ; tar xf - )

You can do it also with cpio, dd, ..

PJA.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi Ron:

I would use the cpio -p method:

e.g.
cd /dir/dir1
find . -print | cpio -pudvm /dir3

that will get everything in the current directory and copy it to the /dir3 directory

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Ron:

This is an easy way:

# cd /sourcedirectory
# find . | cpio -pudlmv /destinationdirectory

This creates directories as needed, preserves modification timestamps, and reports the process of the copy as it proceeds.

Regards!

...JRF...

[David Navarro]

Hi, Ron When I need to do that I excute:

cd /dir/dir1/files
find . | cpio -pdumvbx /dir3/files

If you do that, you will respect links, device files ( if there's any), perms, owner, etc.
I do this for migrating purposes.

[harry d brown jr]

cp -rp /dir/dir1/files /dir3