Re: [LI] XCOPY

["Vishal Khanna" <vishal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
>To copy Directories with Sub-Directories and Files, which command can be
>used in Linux. Actually what is the equivalent of XCOPY in Linux.

use the man pages :-), actually it is cp -R  src  dest ( available in a lot
of UNIX systems) which means recursively, (also same available for ls,
chmod, chown etc.)
>
>While doing ftp, is it possible to transfer a Directory structure to a
>ftp server?
>
there are tools written to do it, cute ftp being one of them,  and a lot of
ftp front end utils ( I am not remembering any) offer this feature, I use a
simple tar -cvf  ab.tar ., and then ftp the file to the other site and
extract it on the other side.


Vishal

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