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[PATCH] gnu: Add os-prober.

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Message #35 received at 28281 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>
Cc: 28281 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add os-prober.
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:28:30 +0200

Hi Arun,

Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net> skribis:

>>> I am trying to do
>>>
>>> cp -r /some/directory/* destination
>>>
>>> To do this, I used `find-files-non-recursive' to get all files in
>>> /some/directory/ and applied `copy-recursively' on each one of them.
>>>
>>> Do you have a better way of doing this in mind?
>>
>> Would (copy-recursively "/some/directory" destination) work for you?
>
> No, it wouldn't. That would recreate /some/directory at the
> destination. I only want the files inside /some/directory to be copied,
> not /some/directory itself.

Ah sorry.  Then yeah, either ‘scandir’ or ‘find-files’, whichever you
find is the least cumbersome.

Feel free to push something along these lines!

Ludo’.

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