RE: Copy Directories and Sub Directories - QSH

Too late. :-)

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 2:30 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Copy Directories and Sub Directories - QSH

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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