I have 2 folders with same name (pepe pepe). i want to copy the files of pepe to other one without lossing the files of destination .
how i can do it ?
copying new files from pepe folder to other folder pepe without lossing any file
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If they're in different locations , specifying full path should do the trick – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy May 22 '15 at 07:48
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possible duplicate of How to copy into with cp if destination folder already exists? – muru May 22 '15 at 08:12
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easily you can just use cp command:
cp -rn /path-to-first-pepe-dire/* /apth-to-second-pepe-dir
PS: I use -r in case you have directories inside so if you don't have you can get rid of
use -n to not overwrite an existing file
example:
first dir pepe in your home
second dir pepe in your desktop
then command would be
cp -rn ~/pepe/* ~/Desktop/pepe
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Warning: this will overwrite already existing files with the same name! – Daniel Alder May 22 '15 at 08:32
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You can add a
-n("no-clobber") after the -r, to not overwrite existing files:cp -rn /path-to-first-pepe-dire/* /path-to-second-pepe-dir– Mark Williams May 22 '15 at 08:33