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Top Forums Programming recursive copy of the directory Post 302228210 by replytoshishir on Saturday 23rd of August 2008 01:03:37 PM
Old 08-23-2008
Well i think it should work fine unless you are breaching the limitations..... the maximum depth of subdirectories is 20, and at least 16 Kbytes of stack space should be available to avoid stack overflow.
Try to check it for small no of sample sub directories.. and see if it works..
 

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CP(1)							      General Commands Manual							     CP(1)

NAME
cp - copy SYNOPSIS
cp [ -ip ] file1 file2 cp [ -ipr ] file ... directory DESCRIPTION
File1 is copied onto file2. By default, the mode and owner of file2 are preserved if it already existed; otherwise the mode of the source file modified by the current umask(2) is used. The -p option causes cp to attempt to preserve (duplicate) in its copies the modification times and modes of the source files, ignoring the present umask. In the second form, one or more files are copied into the directory with their original file-names. Cp refuses to copy a file onto itself. If the -i option is specified, cp will prompt the user with the name of the file whenever the copy will cause an old file to be overwrit- ten. An answer of 'y' will cause cp to continue. Any other answer will prevent it from overwriting the file. If the -r option is specified and any of the source files are directories, cp copies each subtree rooted at that name; in this case the destination must be a directory. SEE ALSO
cat(1), mv(1), rcp(1C) 4th Berkeley Distribution June 8, 1985 CP(1)
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