Hi,

Is there a no to all option when copying a bunch of files? instead of pressing enter endlessly.

Thanks

What OS and version are you using? What is the exact command?

On Solaris, if I run the following it does not cause me to hit return for each file.

$ cp ./dirone/*.* ./dirtwo/

If I then change it to interactive mode, I have to hit y and return for each file I want to overwrite

$ cp -i ./dirone/*.* ./dirtwo/

There are no options which would cause me to have to hit return for each file unless you mean you are doing each file individually (which means you should use a wildcard character such as * to give yourself less 'returns').

Probably the OP has an alias set up for him like alias cp='cp -i'

... or he/she/it [the OP that is] has permission issues on the 'destination' file/directory.

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.

Hi ,

I would instead use a simple script like the one below to achieve same.

Hope this helps.




#! /bin/ksh

export SRC_DIR=/YOUR/SOURCE/DIRECTORY
export TGT_DIR=/YOUR/TARGET/DIRECTORY

for i in `ls $SRC_DIR`
do
echo $i

if [ -f $TGT_DIR/$i ]
then
echo " File exists - will not overwrite it !!!"
else
echo " File $i is not present on target directory - copying same"
cp $SRC_DIR/$i $TGT_DIR/$i
fi
done

Use my favorite command of all time: yes

yes n | cp -R -h -i /dirone/* /dirtwo