* Re: Copying files with dired preserving structure
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@ 2016-01-10 5:06 ` Martin
2016-01-11 9:24 ` Alberto Luaces
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From: Martin @ 2016-01-10 5:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Alberto Luaces writes:
> Hi,
>
> I want to classify some files contained in a directory hierarchy into
> several groups, depending on their content.
>
> So far I do a 'find-dired' to get a list of the available files and then
> I mark each group by grepping into the files
> (dired-mark-files-containing-regexp).
>
> The problem is that if I try now to move those files elsewhere, the
> hierarchy is lost, and besides that, files with the same name are
> overwritten.
>
> I have tried to "tar" the marked files to preserve the hierarchy, but
> this approach is somewhat fragile, as I tend to use incorrect tar flags
> and I risk corrupting my work when updating some of those "groups".
>
> I am looking for a way to move marked files to a different place
> preserving the directory structure with dired.
>
> Thanks,
Hi,
you may want to use dired-do-(async-)shell-command with
"cp ? --parents <target directory>".
Martin
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2016-01-10 5:06 ` Copying files with dired preserving structure Martin
@ 2016-01-11 9:24 ` Alberto Luaces
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From: Alberto Luaces @ 2016-01-11 9:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Martin writes:
> Alberto Luaces writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to classify some files contained in a directory hierarchy into
>> several groups, depending on their content.
>>
>> So far I do a 'find-dired' to get a list of the available files and then
>> I mark each group by grepping into the files
>> (dired-mark-files-containing-regexp).
>>
>> The problem is that if I try now to move those files elsewhere, the
>> hierarchy is lost, and besides that, files with the same name are
>> overwritten.
>>
>> I have tried to "tar" the marked files to preserve the hierarchy, but
>> this approach is somewhat fragile, as I tend to use incorrect tar flags
>> and I risk corrupting my work when updating some of those "groups".
>>
>> I am looking for a way to move marked files to a different place
>> preserving the directory structure with dired.
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> Hi,
>
> you may want to use dired-do-(async-)shell-command with
> "cp ? --parents <target directory>".
Great! It does the trick!
Thank you, Martin.
--
Alberto
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* Copying files with dired preserving structure
@ 2016-01-05 17:03 Alberto Luaces
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From: Alberto Luaces @ 2016-01-05 17:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi,
I want to classify some files contained in a directory hierarchy into
several groups, depending on their content.
So far I do a 'find-dired' to get a list of the available files and then
I mark each group by grepping into the files
(dired-mark-files-containing-regexp).
The problem is that if I try now to move those files elsewhere, the
hierarchy is lost, and besides that, files with the same name are
overwritten.
I have tried to "tar" the marked files to preserve the hierarchy, but
this approach is somewhat fragile, as I tend to use incorrect tar flags
and I risk corrupting my work when updating some of those "groups".
I am looking for a way to move marked files to a different place
preserving the directory structure with dired.
Thanks,
--
Alberto
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