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Subject: Re: Checking XCOPY Exit Value in Cygwin Bash
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On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 06:52:40AM +0900, Shane wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Is there some reason why you are not using "cp" to accomplish your
>>task?  "cp --help" should provide you with all sorts of options for
>>copying files.  You should be able to press "cp" into service for this.
>>
>>Using DOS utilities and DOS paths for this type of thing is putting you
>>on the fringes of support for Cygwin.  I really wouldn't recommend it.
>>Clearly this is not such a Windows-specific problem that it outside of
>>the capabilities of a UNIX solution.
>
>My initial attempt was with cp.  But I didn't see a way of preserving
>the original directory structure of the source dir,

What's wrong with "cp -a" or "cp -r"?

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