merging file sub-trees
Bill Mullen
moon at lunarhub.com
Mon Jun 2 15:38:30 EDT 2003
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:
> At various different times 'mv' alone; or 'cp' followed by an 'rm' would
> do this, but alas, no more.
>
> In brief, I want the merge to move everything from 'a' into 'c',
> overwriting all like-named files, and merging everything else
>
> Example:
> --------
>
> Two original directories in the current directory: 'a', 'c'.
>
> I would issue following command:
>
> $ merge a c
>
> on the following subtrees:
>
> --
>
> a/
> 1.txt
> a.txt
> a/b/
> 3.txt
> tenex.c
> a/c
> foo.txt
> foobar.txt
>
> --
>
> c/
> c/a/
> 1.txt
> os360.o
> c/a/b/
> tenex.c
> larrysucks2.bat
> c/b/
> aardvark.texi
> bleet.1
> c/b/a/
> billsux.alot
>
> --
>
> to yield the following results:
>
> --
>
> c/
> c/a/
> 1.txt
> a.txt
> os360.o
> c/a/b/
> 3.txt
> tenex.c
> larrysucks2.bat
> c/b/
> aardvark.texi
> bleet.1
> c/b/a/
> billsux.alot
But what happened to:
c/a/c/
foo.txt
foobar.txt
? :)
> How can I do this without writing the shell script from hell.
And "cp -a --reply=yes a c/ && rm -fR a" won't do this?
--
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