Copy Directories and Sub Directories - QSH

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