On 05/07/2018 06:54 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:[...] I suspect long term I want "rsync" [ *MUCH* reading to do! ]Perhaps; although depending on the source / target pathing, you may run into the same length issues.
1st - I suspect that --exclude will eliminate multiple pit falls.
2nd - It appears that cp creates a tangle of sub-directories >100
levels deep - each sub-directory has same string as its name ;{
I'll likely abandon further immediate investigation of cp. I've other
projects to complete <grin>