Merging file sub-trees

[Lee D. Rothstein]

Seeya Paul said: ;-)

>Are you sure you're using the Gnu 'cp'?
>My Debian man page has it mentioned and
>it seems to work for me.

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No stinkin '--reply' option for:
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cp, on Redhat:
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$ cp --version
cp (fileutils) 4.1
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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cp, on Cygwin:
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$ cp --version
cp (fileutils) 4.1
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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>Lee said earlier:

>># cp -a --reply=yes $1 $2/ && rm -fR $1 # '--reply' not recognized

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Are you trying to cast a paul on my versions?

he said,

currentLee ;-)