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Top Forums Programming recursive copy of the directory Post 302227798 by replytoshishir on Friday 22nd of August 2008 03:39:16 AM
Old 08-22-2008
ever you can use
cp -var <SRC_DIR> <DEST_DIR>
this is a verbose option with archive also
 

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GJAR(1) 								GNU								   GJAR(1)

NAME
gjar - - Archive tool for Java archives SYNOPSIS
gjar -ctxui [OPTIONS] jar-file [-C DIR FILE] FILE... DESCRIPTION
gjar is an implementation of Sun's jar utility that comes with the JDK. If any file is a directory then it is processed recursively. The manifest file name and the archive file name needs to be specified in the same order the -m and -f flags are specified. OPTIONS
Operation mode: -c Create new archive. -t List table of contents for archive. -x Extract named (or all) files from archive. -u Update existing archive. -i FILE Compute archive index. Operation modifiers: -f FILE Specify archive file name. -0 Store only; use no ZIP compression. -v Generate verbose output on standard output. -M Do not create a manifest file for the entries. -m manifest Include manifest information from specified manifest file. File name selection: -C DIR FILE Change to the DIR and include the following FILE. -@ Read the names of the files to add to the archive from stdin. This option is supported only in combination with -c or -u. Non standard option added in the GCC version. Standard options: -help Print help text, then exit. -version Print version number, then exit. -JOPTION Pass argument to the Java runtime. BUGS
SEE ALSO
java(1), ... AUTHOR
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