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copy and replace to folders to another fastest way - linux bash

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http://serverfault.com – I have a three folders: core, project and merge with many files inside. I want to delete all files and folders (including dot files) inside the merge folder, and then copy all files (including dot files) from the core folder to the merge folder, as well as merge all files in the project folder into the merge files. Situations How can i remove all files and folders (including dot files) from special folders, without removing them? (rm -rf /path/to/folder/* did not delete files and folders.) What is fastest way to copy (with and without merge and replace) all files recursively from special fo (HowTos)

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Submitted by dayu on 05/18/2012

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Summary: Folder A has only many Excelent files Folder B has many folders of mixed Excelent/Good/Bad files How can i delete files in Folder B folders only in case they will be in Folder A. Or simply putting same thing: How to make checking of Folder A files if they exist in Folder B folders then delete from Folder B folders?

Idea of solution Maybe a command witch:

Checks part of alphabet like al

I a folder with sub folders. Each of the sub folders contains further folders that contain files of various types. I want to copy all the files into another single folder.

I suspect this is easy with the appropriate bash command but I not sure of the correct syntax. Can anyone help?

thanks

Creating a folder in a folder? 27 weeks 4 days ago

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I amm moving stuff out of a file Server. I am using DFS for that - the Folders are anyway in a DFS tree, so I can set up a replication temporarily, then drop the old Folder. Works nice, EXCEPT for the Folder containing the users home drives. Which, incidentally, is also the one I can not see all files in due to my permissions.

Small Setup.

I am looking for an application with which I can merge two folder trees. Here, the small files will be replaced by the larger files.

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I am copying 25,000 folders containing hundreds of files each from one hard drive to another on the same Linux server. The destination folder already contains 25,000 different folders full of their own files.

Files and folders from another PC viewed as locked and showing "nobody/nogroup"

Works fine when creating a new folder and new file on the PC:

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When copying/moving a folder containing files from another PC:

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Store a folder in svn 20 weeks 1 day ago

I have a bunch of files and folders which I want versioned in svn.

The installed svn is 1.7, we recently upgraded from 1.6. I have a repository made in 1.6 that contains some of the files and folders I currently have. I checked out the repository and added the other files and folders to it, but now it can no longer update or commit. It says my version is out of date.

I have 102 directories that I would like to merge into a single directory. If there are conflicts I would like to use the most recent file.

How can I do this?

Previously I've tried searching for the folders then copying them into the same parent directory, since the directories I want to merge have the same name it asks if I want to merge them.