Jackson Whelan » linux http://jacksonwhelan.com Web Designer & WordPress Developer in Vermont, USA Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:51:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Copy Entire Directory in Linux http://jacksonwhelan.com/2007/06/copy-entire-directory-in-linux/ http://jacksonwhelan.com/2007/06/copy-entire-directory-in-linux/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:38:19 +0000 Jackson http://pix.elpusher.com/?p=4 One of the most perplexing things when learning command line for Linux is copying an entire directory, contents (files and sub-directories) included. Sure it’s easy to copy individual files, or all files of a certain type but what about that all at once convenience Windows and Mac have us accustomed to? The trick is the -r flag, which tells copy to work recursively through the directory tree.

Example : cp -r dirtocopy/ newdir/

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