Re: Copy Directories and Sub Directories - QSH

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, at the risk of sounding like a PITA - there is a QShell manual 
- all information on its utilities is there. There is a whole section 
on file utilities - I've not looked, but what you want to know is 
there. Help in QShell, as in Unix generally, is of the reminder of 
what you already know variety - not the full explicatory nature of 
what we have on the iSeries.

Go to InfoCenter - to Programming and then to Shells - enjoy!!

HTH
Vern

At 01:32 PM 12/9/2007, you wrote:

> Not sure if this exists in QShell or not, but there are parameters that can be
> used with the cp command (Unix) that should do what you want.
>
> Specifically, cp -r -p /PARENT/* /STEPPARENT
>
> The '-r' does a recursive copy.  The '-p' preserves original file access
> information.
>
> Does this exist in QShell?
>
>
> John McKee
>
> Quoting Shannon ODonnell <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a parent directory in the IFS that has several hundred
> > sub-directories below it.  I want to copy all the sub-directories to a
> > different parent directory.
> >
> >
> >
> > For example, let's say the original parent dir is: /PARENT   and the new
> > target parent directory is named /STEPPARENT
> >
> >
> >
> > I want all the sub directories, and the files within them, to reside in
> > /STEPPARENT so that /STEPPARENT will have the exact same 
> directory structure
> > and contents as /PARENT.
> >
> >
> >
> > I can write a program to recurse through /PARENT and recreate the directory
> > structure and files in /STEPPARENT (in fact, I did that first), but I want
> > to know if there is a QSH command that will allow me to do it all in a
> > single CPY.  My RPG program that does this takes a really long time to do
> > the recursion and the recreation of the files so I'm hoping a QSHELL Copy
> > command would work faster.
> >
> >
> >
> > If this was WINDOWS,  I could go into Explorer and copy the files 
> in /PARENT
> > and paste them to /STEPPARENT and I'd be done.  I know I can map a drive to
> > do the same from the IFS, but my connection to this system is somewhat
> > spotty and I can't trust that the connection would stay up long enough to
> > finish copying all the files if I was to try it via a mapped drive.
> >
> >
> >
> > So.I was hoping I could just submit a QSHELL command to batch to 
> do this for
> > me.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Shannon O'Donnell
> >
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