Copy command help please
 

i have a directory that has a subdirectory called 'blah' - i want to copy that subdirectory creating identical subdirectories named 'blah2' 'blah3' 'blah4' etc

what would the Unix copy command be to create those?

thanks

cp /path/to/source /path/to/destination -R

thanks will try :thumbsup

Or are you wanting to make blah1 blah2 blah3 automatically from one source? That command I pasted is just a recursive copy.

...... and didn't work

yeah that's what i want :)

Ahh, then do

for i in {1..5}; do cp /source/path/here/blah /dest/path/here/blah$i -R; done

1 would be the first dir made, 5 would be the last

What errors are you getting?

didn't work - no copies created

cp /drive2/psj.photo.formats/full/azseries/45 /drive2/psj.photo.formats/full/azseries/45$i -R

probably didn't understand the {1..5}

not getting errors - just gives me usage formats for the cp command

greek to me :winkwink:

cp -r /path/to/directory /path/to/destination

Flag first. :thumbsup

Copy and paste this to the command line, should work:

You need the whole command.

I think you have the flag wrong, that's why he keeps getting the options for the cp command... flag needs to be after cp and lower case:

Edit:// also I don't think fagboy above us' command works anymore on latest versions of Linux.

The position of the flag doesn't matter. I've always used an upper case R for recursive. From the man page:

-R, -r, --recursive
copy directories recursively

Yeah sorry guys, I got the flag wrong... Here's the corrected version, copy and paste:

You're right. He had rm -rf / when I first caught what he was trying to do. Just for fun, I tried it on a VM running ubuntu 12.04 and got this:

# rm -rf /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

edit: if it DID work I can literally replace the vm in 30 seconds.

You're an idiot, rm -rf doesn't work on latest versions of linux, maybe you should upgrade that welfare server you use. :321GFY

:thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

rm -rf / wouldn't do much unless you were logged in as root anyway (although it wouldn't surprise me if OP was).

And superior users use a real Unix :2 cents:

that worked :thumbsup

i have to make them one by one it seems

thanks Babaganoosh and Killswitch

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

rm -rf *; done

lol lol lol

No problem man! :thumbsup

what the fuck?