Re: Using the cp command.
use tar or cpio?
(cd /partitiona; tar cvf - ./) | (cd /partitionb; tar xf -)
or something like that...
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:21:18 -0400, alex <radsky@ncia.net> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to copy the contents of one partition to another with:
> cp -afv (partition a)/* (partition b)/
>
> Normally, the command works fine except when (partition b) already
> contains a large number of directories and files that are duplicates of
> those in (partition a) .
>
> The command works but each duplicate requires permission to be
> overwritten so it's a tedious process, clicking on 'y' for each
> duplicate being copied.
>
> Is there a way to copy the entire contents of one partition to another
> partition that contains duplicates without having to bang on y for each
> duplicate----different options, for example?
> I checked out ' man cp' but don't see anything that might help. Perhaps
> there's a different way of doing the copy.
>
> The command works fine if there aren't any duplicates in the partitions.
>
>
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