I used to use Ubuntu
most of time, the command are same as Ubuntu
But there is a command annoys me.
it is cp (copy command)
because I often type cp -a FOLDER/ target
to copy a file , however , the command will copy all the folder under FOLDER/ but not including FOLDER/ itself.
I know I can get what I want by using cp -a FOLDER target (without the slash in the tail)
it easily to misuse the command.
Is there any way to change the behavior, thanks
The command cp is a program in /bin so you could rename the cp command to another file, such as main_cp.exe and create a batch file (script) of your own called cp, which changes the call from what you type to what is actually required and then calls main_cp.exe.
However, if you're going to be using OSX a lot and perhaps on other people's machines, learning to train yourself to just not type the slash is probably going to be better in the long term.
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I want to copy a folder ~/Projects/LocalProject onto my server //VM-Server/ServerProject.
I know that I can use GitBash:
cp -r directory-name-1 directory-name-2
But what I'm curious about is, can I create a script to do that by double clicking that script, or adding it as a command to my GitBash, cause I will need that alot?
--Edit--
Tried nothing, as I don't know how to do that. Yes there are hidden files, I don't want them to be copied. There shouldn't be newer files on the destination. I need to manually run it, I thought that's clear as I mentioned the option to have a executable script / or a terminal command.
Option 1: Batch file
You don't even need git-bash; you can make a batch file in any text editor, name it copy to server.bat, and type in cp C:\Users\<Your username>\Projects\LocalProject \\VM-Server\ServerProject.
You can also make a .sh file for use in bash. The command is the same, just make note that Windows uses \, while bash uses / for directory tree
Option 2: Alias
Open your bash_profile file (it's in your git bash install location).
Add a line at the end of the file that says alias copyToServer = 'cp ~/Projects/LocalProject //VM-Server/ServerProject'. Then close git-bash, reopen it and use the command by typing copyToServer as a bash command. (It doesn't need to be named copyToServer)
We have a set of unix tools that were ported to windows and I want to use the zip command to package a set of files.
I'm trying to do this:
Open cmd from desktop and take the files in r:\pam\client\ssb\portfoliorepportcards\202003\*.docx and create a zip file in r:\pam\client\ssb\PortfolioReportCards\202003.zip with the files in it.
My command is:
C:\Users\JPalomino\Desktop>zip.exe -b "r:\pam\client\ssb\PortfolioReportCards" 202003.zip . -i r:\pam\client\ssb\portfoliorepportcards\202003\*.docx
zip error: Nothing to do! (202003.zip)
and I get nothing
However when I cd to r:\pam\client\ssb\portfoliorepportcards and do
R:\Pam\Client\SSB\PortfolioReportCards>zip -r 202003.zip . -i \202003\*.docx
it works like a charm. Also I wouldn't want the folder structure in it.
Could you please tell me what I'm doing wrong in the command? It seems such an easy thing to ask from zip.
Thanks
Maybe this will help, you don't need zip.exe (if you have powershell 5 or higher)...
powershell -command "Compress-Archive -Path 'r:\pam\client\ssb\PortfolioReportCards\*' 'r:\pam\client\ssb\PortfolioReportCards\202003.zip'"
I saw you're having trouble zipping to another drive letter, this should help with that too. I'm not really familiar with zip.exe to know why that's giving your grief.
Anything else you "port" to cmd is probably better off as a powershell. --- also if "zip.exe" isn't on your desktop that could possibly be your problem right there. If it works when you CD that tells me it's probably located where you're CD'ing to. Perhaps add zip.exe as an environment variable so that it can be accessed globally instead of only from the working directory.
And my take one your command (If zip is actually on your desktop or set as environment variable... : zip.exe -b "r:\pam\client\ssb\PortfolioReportCards" 202003.zip . -i r:\pam\client\ssb\portfoliorepportcards\202003\*.docx
I would re-write that and try this instead (because traditionally the filepath is all in quotes for any other windows command I know of)...
zip.exe -b "r:\pam\client\ssb\PortfolioReportCards\202003.zip" . -i r:\pam\client\ssb\portfoliorepportcards\202003\*.docx
I could not find a usable solution to this seemingly simple problem, despite my best efforts.
I'm using MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6
I have a folder I want to copy with the following location:
/Users/ep9k/Desktop/Key-LogEcovaluator/whereami
I want to copy it to this directory using the terminal:
/Users/ep9k/Library/Application/Support/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default/python/plugins
I tried the following commands in the terminal. Notice I am in the 'whereami' folder when doing this:
whereami ep9k$ cp -r /Users/ep9k/Desktop/Key-LogEcovaluator/whereami /Users/ep9k/Library/Application Support/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default/python/plugins
whereami ep9k$ cp -a /Users/ep9k/Desktop/Key-LogEcovaluator/whereami /Users/ep9k/Library/Application Support/QGIS/QGIS3/profiles/default/python/plugins
I'm met with the following message indicating I am not using it correctly:
However, I created a "tester" folder on my desktop and can copy to this folder with no problems, using exactly the same command (except with the pathname changed to my tester folder).
I can also copy and paste things to this directory using the GUI "finder". What am I missing?
Your destination path contains at least one whitespace character ("Application Support"), which causes the "cp" command to think it's being given three arguments instead of two. Enclose the destination path in single or double quotes and you should be all right.
When I copy something, I always forget the -R, then I have go all the way back to add it right after cp.
I want to add this to bash config files.
alias cp="cp -R"
I have not seen anything bad happen. Is it safe to do this?
The only thing I can think of that would cause unexpected behavior with the -R flag is that it doesn't work with wildcards.
What I mean is... for example you want to copy all mp3 Files in a directory and every subdirectory with: cp -R /path/*.mp3. Although -R is given it will not copy mp3s in the subdirectories of path - if there are any.
I wouldn't use aliases for changing the behaviour of normal commands. When you are in a different shell / another computer, the alias will be missing. When a friend wants to help you, he will not know what you did.
Once I had an alias rm="rm -i" and I performed rm *, while I just had changed shell with a su.
And sometimes you want to use cp without the -R option, will you remember to use /bin/cp in these cases (copy all files in the current dir to another location, but do not cp the subdirs)?
I need to find a solution at work to backup specific folders daily, hopefully to a RAR or ZIP file.
If it was on PC, I would have done it already. But I don't have any idea to how to approach it on a Mac.
What I basically want to achieve is an automated task, that can be run with an executable, that does:
compress a specific directory (/Volumes/Audio/Shoko) to a rar or zip file.
(in the zip file exclude all *.wav files in all sub Directories and a directory names "Videos").
move It to a network share (/Volumes/Post Shared/Backup From Sound).
(or compress directly to this folder).
automate the file name of the Zip file with dynamic date and time (so no duplicate file names).
Shutdown Mac when finished.
I want to say again, I don't usually use Mac, so things like what kind of file to open for the script, and stuff like that is not trivial for me, yet.
I have tried to put Mark's bash lines (from the first answer, below) in a txt file and executed it, but it had errors and didn't work.
I also tried to use Automator, but it's too plain, no advanced options.
How can I accomplish this?
I would love a working example :)
Thank You,
Dave
You can just make a bash script that does the backup and then you can either double-click it or run it on a schedule. I don't know your paths and/or tools of choice, but some thing along these lines:
#!/bin/bash
FILENAME=`date +"/Volumes/path/to/network/share/Backup/%Y-%m-%d.tgz"`
cd /directory/to/backup || exit 1
tar -cvz "$FILENAME" .
You can save that on your Desktop as backup and then go in Terminal and type:
chmod +x ~/Desktop/backup
to make it executable. Then you can just double click on it - obviously after changing the paths to reflect what you want to backup and where to.
Also, you may prefer to use some other tools - such as rsync but the method is the same.