From: John A Pershing Jr <pershing@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs lisp command to copy dir and all subdir?
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:25:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <823a7bit41.fsf@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3f95a999-b052-4d7f-a4a0-38bb1852c4ae@2g2000prl.googlegroups.com
Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
> On Aug 26, 5:32 am, Michael Heerdegen <nore...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>> Have a look at the doc of `dired-recursive-copies'.
>
> is this the only way?
>
> i think most modern scripting lang has a copy dir function... that'd
> be good in elisp.
Well, you could always run 'cp -p -r ..." in a subshell.
-jp
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-28 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-25 3:43 emacs lisp command to copy dir and all subdir? Xah Lee
2009-08-25 15:53 ` notbob
2009-08-26 12:32 ` Michael Heerdegen
2009-08-27 15:21 ` Xah Lee
2009-08-28 20:25 ` John A Pershing Jr [this message]
2009-09-10 20:23 ` wart
2009-09-11 14:16 ` Andreas Politz
[not found] ` <mailman.6442.1252678615.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-11 17:54 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-12 1:40 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-12 1:43 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-12 5:24 ` Xah Lee
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