[TriLUG] copying files

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, David Brain wrote:

> Seems like 'cp --parents'  would be helpful, if you have:
>
> source/dir1/foo
>
> cp --parents source/dir1/foo dest
>
> will result in:
>
> dest/source/dir1/foo

never heard of --parents ;-\

just tested it out. This example does just what I want. I'll 
have to see if it works in the general case (tomorrow)

> could probably be included in find.. find ./ -mmin -5 -type f -exec cp
> --parents -auv {} ../backup \; .. or something like that.

no problem :-)

thanks

Joe

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