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Old 11-16-2016
If your referring to this
Quote:
By the way, if this is the sort of C++ program that's line after line of system(), it'd probably be more easily "ported" to shell script.
It's a c++ program with roughly 300 lines of code and only
one system() call
# 9  
Old 11-22-2016
Okay then.
# 10  
Old 11-22-2016
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Originally Posted by pinbot
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seems the best I can do is cp file ../ and move up one directory. I may have to rearrange my directory structure to get this to work in linux. Thanks for all your suggestions
If cp file ../ (or cp file ..) works to move the file up one level, then cp file ../.. will work to move it up two levels (with obvious exceptions for being too high in the filesystem hierarchy and symlinks).
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# 11  
Old 11-23-2016
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Originally Posted by Don Cragun
If cp file ../ (or cp file ..) works to move the file up one level, then cp file ../.. will work to move it up two levels (with obvious exceptions for being too high in the filesystem hierarchy and symlinks).
And you sir have nailed it and the answer was so simple, thank
you very much Don.
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