You will probably want to start by opening your source dir, then for each of the listings (excpet . and ..) determine if it is a directory or a file. If it is a file, copy it to the destination dir. If it's a directory, make a corresponding directory in your destination dir, open the source subdir and repeat the above steps. Sound recursive? There's a hint.

Sorry I cannot be more explicit. I've got to catch a vanpool. I'll try to check back in later and see if there are any other answers. If not, I'll bang together a few rocks and get a subroutine that'll get you started.

Ivan Heffner
Sr. Software Engineer, DAS Lead
WhitePages.com, Inc.

In reply to Re: copying some directories and placing them in a new directory by Codon
in thread copying some directories and placing them in a new directory by drum1981

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