GNU bug report logs - #4416
23.1; suggestion: a elisp function for copying and deleting whole dir

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Xah Lee" <xah <at> xahlee.org>

Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:25:08 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 4408

Fixed in version 23.2

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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From: "Xah Lee" <xah <at> xahlee.org>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: 23.1; suggestion: a elisp function for copying and deleting whole dir
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:21:00 -0700

here's my draft implementation. (thanks to Andreas Politz who pointed out 
the dired-aux function)

(defun copy-directory-recursive (source-dir dest-dir)
 "Copy whole a directory SOURCE-DIR to DEST-DIR.
Note, the semantics of source-dir dest-dir is different from the unix “cp” 
utility.
In unix's “cp -R”, if dest-dir exists, it'll copy source-dir itself, else, 
just source-dir's children.

In copy-directory-recursive, it always copy source-dir's children.

In both, the dest-dir may or may not exist. If not, it'll be created. 
However, dest-dir's parent must exist.

This function is based on dired-copy-file-recursive.
Behavior about linked files, etc, are from that function."
 (require 'dired-aux)
 (dired-copy-file-recursive source-dir dest-dir nil nil nil 'always)
 )

haven't worked on delete-directory-recursive yet...

 Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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Merged 4408 4416. Request was from Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com> to control <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com. (Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:00:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' Request was from Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:35:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:24:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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