hp-ux 7.0 cp command problem...

[hakan toktas]

cp command is quite primitive on HP-UX 7.0 and It doesn't allow me to merge into an existing directory with the same name. It has only -r option in order to copy recursively but it doesn't have -i or -f options to copy/merge into an existing directory with the same name... It simply fails to do that. Is there any command on HP-UX 7.0 to do that??? Or is there a way to upgrade only that command or a solution?

Thanks in advance

[Darren Prior · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I think you will probably struggle to find any utilities for HP-UX 7 these days, it's not been around for quite a while! You may find that writing your own C program would be the best bet.

regards,

Darren.

[melvyn burnard]

Sorry but that OS version is SO OLD, you will not even get patches any more.
You really should look at installing a newer OS, such as HP-UX 11.00

[Vicente Sanchez_3]

Hello,

Perhaps this is a solution:

create a new cp script that simules cp:
cp

the script is like this:

if [ -f $2 ];then
echo "The file exists. Do you want to upgrade?"
read option
if [ "$option" = "S" -o "$option" = s" ];then
rm $2
cp $1 $2
fi
fi

HTH, Vicente.

[hakan toktas]

Since this system has hundred thousands of lines hp-basic code, it's not possible to upgrade the system because of the backward incompatibility of hp-basic. That's why I'm trying to find another solution...

I've already written a script but I couldn't manage to execute it for the directories (it's simple as you write for the files) but I don't wanna remove contents of a directory, I wanna merge newer files on to it... (maybe I'll work on that if I can't manage to compile cp on 7.0)

I've managed to compile a newer version of cp.c on linux and it's working on linux, I'll try it on HP-UX 7.0 on monday...

Thank you very much for your assistance...

PS. I'll let you know about the result...

[Stefan Schulz]

Hi,

have you tried to use tar? Think you could tar the contens of the one directory, change to the destination and extract again. Should work in one commandline without writing a tarfile.

If this works, perhaps you can set this as an alias.

I don't have a shell at hand right now, but it could be something like:

tar -cvf - sourcedir | (cd destination; tar -xf - )

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan