Subject: Re: copying files from ls command
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2004 - 18:00:53 AKST
rsync worked out perfect. In fact, I found this page:
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ on how to do
incremental backups, which is much better than my previous plan.
I always though rsync was just for syncronization over a network. I
didn't realize how easy it was to use locally.
Justin
Justin Dieters wrote:
> Thanks all. I have never used rsync, so I will try it out this afternoon.
>
> I figured I would use ls and cp because it seemed like a quick and dirty
> way to do it. Apparently it is not. Looking around online, the only
> solution I've seen is to use some tool (it's early, and I've forgotten
> the name) to change all the spaces to underscores, copy the dirs over,
> and then use sed to change the underscores back to spaces - hardly an
> elegant solution. :)
>
> Thanks again for the suggestions, I'll let you know how it works out.
> Justin
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