Recursive Copy?

Ric Moore wayward4now
Thu Aug 10 10:33:02 PDT 2006


On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 11:22 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 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

I have used cp -raf to grab everything... I think -a does pretty much
the same thing. 
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