Re: cp alphabetical

[Andrés Ghigliazza]

I will test it later.

Pádraig, Matthew, thanks very much.


On 6/20/07, Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > Andrés Ghigliazza wrote:
> >> It would copy all the albums in alphabetical order, to the same target
> >> directory!!. I am interested in having the same directories structure
> >> in the player too, i.e: artist1/album1, etc.
> >
> > untested:
> >
> > find /src | sort | xargs cp --parents --target-directory=/flash
>
> You beat me to it, but I did test, and it WFM.
>
> Another note:
> find /src -print0 | sort -z | xargs -0 cp [...args...]
>
> ...won't break if/when your file names have spaces in them.
>
> --
> Matthew
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