[plug] Recursive Copying of Folder Contents

[Lee Standen]

fc is a very useful command too...

Every had a 5 line one-liner that you made some typo right at the start?  Fc will open up the last command in $EDITOR and let you make changes to it :)

Ya might already know about it, but I didn't until recently, and I've been using linux for ages :)


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of Lyndon Maydwell
Sent: Thursday, 4 June 2009 1:33 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Recursive Copying of Folder Contents

If you're using zsh there's a nice recursive glob and plain file
specifier you can use:
base-directory/**/*(.)

and to avoid the max args issue:

for i in base-directory/**/*(.)
do
     cp "$i" destination/
done

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:09 PM, garry <garbuck at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>>  cp Music/{A-D}*/*/*  common-folder
>
> It's interesting to see the flexibility of bash! I had no idea you could
> break up commands with subsets of letters..
>
> One that's stumped me (and would be really useful) is getting multiple goes
> at command memory..
>
> e.g. When you press *up* to retrieve a previous command, being able to do it
> again after each "&&".
>
> Garry
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