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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copy between two different folders containing same sub-folders Post 302775939 by DGPickett on Tuesday 5th of March 2013 04:48:56 PM
Old 03-05-2013
I don't think 'cp -r' really cares, it just walks the input tree and writes the output tree. You could walk both trees and make a new tree. Just make sure the input dir(s) are what you want in (not as) the output dir. While 'cp -r' will create the target if it is missing, but next time it will put all the files one level lower on the tree, so if the first time it creates dir1 with file1, the next time it will create dir1/dir1 and file1 in that. Ditto for scp, rcp and sometimes mv.
 

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