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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers cp - no to all option? Post 302085642 by td_kuoj3 on Friday 18th of August 2006 01:31:57 PM
Old 08-18-2006
OS: AIX 5.3

Let me restate my problem again.

i want to copy dirone to dirtwo, they're similiar, but there are some extra files in dirone that dirtwo doesn't have, going through them one by one takes way too long. So I use the following command to copy one directory to the second.

cp -R -h -i /dirone/* /dirtwo

I wanted -i in there because I do NOT want to overwrite, the directory is huge and i had to sit here pressing enter for 1.5 hours.

Now my question is, is there an option that is "no to all"?

Thanks, any help is much appreciated.
 

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GENDIFF(1)                                                    General Commands Manual                                                   GENDIFF(1)

NAME
gendiff - utility to aid in error-free diff file generation SYNOPSIS
gendiff <directory> <diff-extension> DESCRIPTION
gendiff is a rather simple script which aids in generating a diff file from a single directory. It takes a directory name and a "diff- extension" as its only arguments. The diff extension should be a unique sequence of characters added to the end of all original, unmodi- fied files. The output of the program is a diff file which may be applied with the patch program to recreate the changes. The usual sequence of events for creating a diff is to create two identical directories, make changes in one directory, and then use the diff utility to create a list of differences between the two. Using gendiff eliminates the need for the extra, original and unmodified directory copy. Instead, only the individual files that are modified need to be saved. Before editing a file, copy the file, appending the extension you have chosen to the filename. I.e. if you were going to edit somefile.cpp and have chosen the extension "fix", copy it to somefile.cpp.fix before editing it. Then edit the first copy (somefile.cpp). After editing all the files you need to edit in this fashion, enter the directory one level above where your source code resides, and then type $ gendiff somedirectory .fix > mydiff-fix.patch You should redirect the output to a file (as illustrated) unless you want to see the results on stdout. SEE ALSO
diff(1), patch(1) AUTHOR
Marc Ewing <marc@redhat.com> 4th Berkeley Distribution Mon Jan 10 2000 GENDIFF(1)
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