Suppose I am in the directory /gopi
And there are directories called as publicsource and publicdest in this /gopi directory.publicsource has some files in it whereas publicdest is empty directory.
So how to copy all files from publicsource to publicdest from /gopi directory?
When I did,
cp -fR /gopi/publicsource /gopi/publicdest
the directory publicsource is itself getting copied to publicdest directory but i want only the files to be copied. So please help me.Thanks.
cp -fR /gopi/publicsource/* /gopi/publicdest
Or
(cd /gopi/publicsource; tar -cf -) | (cd /gopi/publicdest; tar -xf -)