Recursive Copy?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 12:47 +0000, Steve Jardine wrote:
> All,
> 
>     I need to copy a group of directories recursively into a single directory. I need to make sure that no files
> overwrite each other. I would like to have each duplicate file name appended with a number to make them unique. 
> 
>     Anyone got a utility like this? Or an idea?

cp -a source dest

This does all directories, permissions, access times, etc. The -a means
archive.

> 
>     TIA.
> 
> 	Steve
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