From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: 28281@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#28281] [PATCH] gnu: Add os-prober.
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:28:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shftelsx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5dc91a20.AEAAPzHdNuYAAAAAAAAAAAOzWv8AAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZtcxv@mailjet.com> (Arun Isaac's message of "Mon, 11 Sep 2017 05:05:54 +0530")
Hi Arun,
Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> skribis:
>>> I am trying to do
>>>
>>> cp -r /some/directory/* destination
>>>
>>> To do this, I used `find-files-non-recursive' to get all files in
>>> /some/directory/ and applied `copy-recursively' on each one of them.
>>>
>>> Do you have a better way of doing this in mind?
>>
>> Would (copy-recursively "/some/directory" destination) work for you?
>
> No, it wouldn't. That would recreate /some/directory at the
> destination. I only want the files inside /some/directory to be copied,
> not /some/directory itself.
Ah sorry. Then yeah, either ‘scandir’ or ‘find-files’, whichever you
find is the least cumbersome.
Feel free to push something along these lines!
Ludo’.
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2017-09-09 17:24 ` [bug#28281] [PATCH] gnu: Add os-prober Arun Isaac
[not found] ` <e7d9c9ca.AEQAP00oGCwAAAAAAAAAAAOzWv8AAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZtCPY@mailjet.com>
2017-09-10 13:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-10 16:02 ` Arun Isaac
[not found] ` <403302d1.ADkAAC_e-_IAAAAAAAAAAAOzWv8AAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZtWIT@mailjet.com>
2017-09-10 20:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-10 23:35 ` Arun Isaac
[not found] ` <5dc91a20.AEAAPzHdNuYAAAAAAAAAAAOzWv8AAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZtcxv@mailjet.com>
2017-09-11 7:28 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-09-11 17:23 ` Arun Isaac
[not found] ` <207deec4.AEAAP2Xyu24AAAAAAAAAAAOzWv8AAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZtsaB@mailjet.com>
2017-09-11 20:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-13 23:22 ` bug#28281: " Arun Isaac
2017-08-29 19:06 [bug#28281] " Arun Isaac
2017-08-31 13:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-31 17:41 ` Arun Isaac
2017-09-09 17:16 ` Arun Isaac
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