Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[ITAmember]

It's not as easy as cp -r, some of the directories already exist and it won't let me merge them. I currently have this

[dejan555]

You want to merge all files from one directory to another?
Just use same method used for installing sfs's (and pets probably):
Let's say you have 2 directories dir1 and dir2:

[ITAmember]

I wish cp --help would've told me that... Thanks.

[dejan555]

Now, let's say you have multiple directories to merge, like 5 of them for example, I'd make this kind of dir structure:

./parentdir:
subdir1
subdir2

./parentdir/subdir1:
dir1
dir2
dir3
dir4
dir5

./parentdir/subdir2:

Now, to copy all files from dir1-dir5 to subdir2 and then erase dirs I use this command: