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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


  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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