Hi,

given n directories D1..Dn with arbitrary content. I would like a function that takes these source directories and copies their contents to a destination directory Dd such, that Dd is the union of all files and the fs structure of D1..Dn.

D1
 - Folder1
   - file1
   - file2
 - Folder2
   - file4

D2
 - Folder1
   - file3
   - file5
 - Folder3
   - file7

=>

Dd
 - Folder1
   - file1
   - file2
   - file3
   - file5
 - Folder2
   - file4
 - Folder3
   - file7

Right now, I can assume, that the sets of D1..Dn are mutually exclusive, but of course a hook on how to behave on clashes (and what type of clash .. name/diff) would not hurt.

Does such a thing already exist? I know about UnionFS, but rather than this transparent solution I would prefer a CLI-based batch processing tool, because these merging operations are one-shot only.

Update:

Maybe I should start to have LESS Perl on my mind... ;-)

> cp -a D[12]/* Dd/

[download]

Does the trick. Ok, it's not that portable, it's not perl, but for the moment...

Bye
 PetaMem     All Perl:   MT, NLP, NLU

In reply to Unification of Directories (their contents) by PetaMem

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