Re: [MLUG] copying many trees together

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> Suppose I have a bunch of directory trees like these and there may be 
> files in any all of the directories:
>
> A-- foo
>     `-- bar
>
>
> B-- foo
>     `-- bar
>         `-- billy
>             `-- willy
>
>
> C-- foo
>     `-- bar
>         `-- billy
>             `-- sue
>
>
> D-- foo
>     `-- bar
>         `-- sally
>             `-- joe
>
>
> E-- foo
>     `-- baz
>         `-- fun
>             `-- stuff
>
>
> F-- foo
>     `-- baz
>         `-- unfun
>             `-- stuff
>
> I want to put all of those directories, with the files into a single 
> tree like so:
>
> X-- foo
>     |-- bar
>     |   |-- billy
>     |   |   |-- sue
>     |   |   `-- willy
>     |   `-- sally
>     |       `-- joe
>     `-- baz
>         |-- fun
>         |   `-- stuff
>         `-- unfun
>             `-- stuff
>
> This could be done in succession with files from A copied first, then B, 
> then C, etc., and it would be fine to overwrite files because files with 
> the same name in the same position in the tree are always identical.
>
> What's the best way to do this?  Is there anything made for this?  Does 
> rsync do this kind of thing?  I wish cp could do it but I don't see an 
> option for it.
>
> Mike

How about

mkdir X
rsync -av [A-F]/* X/.


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