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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to copy files/folders and show the files/folders? Post 302983974 by hicksd8 on Wednesday 19th of October 2016 12:34:37 PM
Old 10-19-2016
Referring to vbe's post#2 and suggested command line he gives (which is the way to do it), I would comment as follows.

1. The destination path MUST already exist before the command is run. If necessary create the destination path yourself first.
2. If you are copying within a filesystem then don't use the 'l' switch on the cpio command otherwise it will link the files where possible and won't actually copy them (although of course the files will appear in the new path location because of the links made).
3. Before you run the command execute a 'cd' command to the source location of the files to be copied. If you use a '.' in the find command then everything in that directory will be copied. If you only want a subset then you need to specify that subset within find. Once you have 'cd' to the source location a mirror image of the files you can see with a 'ls' command will be copied to the destination folder. An exact copy of the whole tree, sub-directories and all.
4. If you want to see more information as the files are copied include a 'v' switch in cpio (eg, cpio -puvdm /<dest dir>)

If you're still having trouble making this work do post back your problem. We can sort it.

---------- Post updated at 05:34 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:45 PM ----------

So, for example:

Code:
 
 # cd /a/b/c/sourcedir
 # find . -print|cpio -puvdm /d/e/f/destinationdir

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

cpio

CPIO(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   CPIO(1)

NAME

       cpio - copy files to and from archives

SYNOPSIS

       cpio   {-o|--create}   [-0acvABLV]   [-C   bytes]   [-H	 format]   [-M	message]  [-O  [[user@]host:]archive]  [-F  [[user@]host:]archive]
       [--file=[[user@]host:]archive]  [--format=format]  [--message=message]  [--null]  [--reset-access-time]	[--verbose]   [--dot]	[--append]
       [--block-size=blocks]  [--dereference] [--io-size=bytes] [--quiet] [--force-local] [--rsh-command=command] [--help] [--version] < name-list
       [> archive]

       cpio {-i|--extract} [-bcdfmnrtsuvBSV] [-C bytes] [-E file] [-H format] [-M message] [-R [user][:.][group]] [-I  [[user@]host:]archive]  [-F
       [[user@]host:]archive]  [--file=[[user@]host:]archive]  [--make-directories] [--nonmatching] [--preserve-modification-time] [--numeric-uid-
       gid] [--rename] [-t|--list] [--swap-bytes] [--swap] [--dot] [--unconditional] [--verbose] [--block-size=blocks]	[--swap-halfwords]  [--io-
       size=bytes]  [--pattern-file=file]  [--format=format] [--owner=[user][:.][group]] [--no-preserve-owner] [--message=message] [--force-local]
       [--no-absolute-filenames] [--sparse] [--only-verify-crc] [--to-stdout] [--quiet] [--rsh-command=command] [--help] [--version]  [pattern...]
       [< archive]

       cpio {-p|--pass-through} [-0adlmuvLV] [-R [user][:.][group]] [--null] [--reset-access-time] [--make-directories] [--link] [--quiet] [--pre-
       serve-modification-time] [--unconditional] [--verbose] [--dot] [--dereference] [--owner=[user][:.][group]] [--no-preserve-owner] [--sparse]
       [--help] [--version] destination-directory < name-list

REPORTING BUGS

       Report cpio bugs to bug-cpio@gnu.org

       GNU cpio home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/>

       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

       Report cpio translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

SEE ALSO

       cpio(5)

DESCRIPTION

       GNU cpio is fully documented in the texinfo documentation. To access the help from your command line, type

       info cpio

       The online copy of the documentation is available at the following address:

       http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/manual

																	   CPIO(1)
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