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Well, at the risk of sounding like a PITA - there is a QShell manual - all information on its utilities is there. There is a whole section on file utilities - I've not looked, but what you want to know is there. Help in QShell, as in Unix generally, is of the reminder of what you already know variety - not the full explicatory nature of what we have on the iSeries.

Go to InfoCenter - to Programming and then to Shells - enjoy!!

HTH
Vern

At 01:32 PM 12/9/2007, you wrote:

Not sure if this exists in QShell or not, but there are parameters that can be
used with the cp command (Unix) that should do what you want.

Specifically, cp -r -p /PARENT/* /STEPPARENT

The '-r' does a recursive copy. The '-p' preserves original file access
information.

Does this exist in QShell?


John McKee

Quoting Shannon ODonnell <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have a parent directory in the IFS that has several hundred
> sub-directories below it. I want to copy all the sub-directories to a
> different parent directory.
>
>
>
> For example, let's say the original parent dir is: /PARENT and the new
> target parent directory is named /STEPPARENT
>
>
>
> I want all the sub directories, and the files within them, to reside in
> /STEPPARENT so that /STEPPARENT will have the exact same directory structure
> and contents as /PARENT.
>
>
>
> I can write a program to recurse through /PARENT and recreate the directory
> structure and files in /STEPPARENT (in fact, I did that first), but I want
> to know if there is a QSH command that will allow me to do it all in a
> single CPY. My RPG program that does this takes a really long time to do
> the recursion and the recreation of the files so I'm hoping a QSHELL Copy
> command would work faster.
>
>
>
> If this was WINDOWS, I could go into Explorer and copy the files in /PARENT
> and paste them to /STEPPARENT and I'd be done. I know I can map a drive to
> do the same from the IFS, but my connection to this system is somewhat
> spotty and I can't trust that the connection would stay up long enough to
> finish copying all the files if I was to try it via a mapped drive.
>
>
>
> So.I was hoping I could just submit a QSHELL command to batch to do this for
> me.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Shannon O'Donnell
>
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