UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

again, it doesnt work, i use it and it copies the entire directory and whats in it. I only want everything in the directory, to be moved to another folder. Basically i have a program that changes this folder constantly to i cant just list all the files in there as they may change.

If all the files are named the same "basic" are they all in the same directory? If they are, how the heck did you do that?

There has to be a difference in the file name or directory. If not, assuming they are all different, how did you keep them from overwriting one another?

You will need to write a script to move multiple files to a new file. cp and mv use the same syntax, but mv will overwrite, unless you make the file you are moving to unique. But with your situation, use cp.

touch example
cp -i basic example
cp -i basic2 example

the -i checks to make sure that you do not overwrite existing data on the new file. It shouldn't, but I always double check.

You should notice that if you have five files with the same name and directory, this will not be possible. If you are looking for a single line of code to satisfy your need, let me know if you find it. I dont think it exists.

This is hard to explain, let me start by saying that Minecraft a game has a texture pack file, the only way for it to work is by selecting all the files in a directory and compressing it, now the texture packs wont work if you compress a directory, because when minecraft tries to look for the files in the .zip file it only finds the directory i compressed, the files are in there but inside the directory inside the zip file. So my plan is copy all of the files into another folder then select all and compress. I need them to be copied into another directory. so thats why im here asking this.

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Wait instead of copying can someone tell me how to compress everything in a folder, not the actual folder. I found an easier way, without the copy command.

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Just made a huge lep foward here, by combining a little knowledge on how to net send from windows xp using * instead of your ip address i was able to come up with this cp -a * cd .. this copied everything in the directory to the directory outside it which was the desktop, woot.

cd ..
cd ..
cd users
cd lenzo
cd library
cd application\ support
cd minecraft
cd bin
unzip minecraft.jar -d delete
cd ..
cd ..
cd ..
cd ..
cd desktop
cp char.png /Users/lenzo/Library/Application\ Support/minecraft/bin/delete/mob/char.png
cd ..
cd library
cd Application\ support
cd minecraft
cd bin
rm -rf minecraft.jar
cd delete
zip -r Minecraft.jar *
cp minecraft.jar cd ..
cd ..
rm -rf delete