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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