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Produnis
Asked: 2013-02-23 05:42:15 +0800 CST

How to merge folders and subfolders?

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I have two folders (ORIGINAL A and ORIGINAL B), and both do have subfolders.

How do I merge these two folders (and subfolders) to DESTINATION C?

a) ORIGINAL A and ORIGINAL B do have the same subfolders. I want to copy every unique file of any subfolder into the "correct" subfolder of DESTINATION C

b) some subfolders are only in ORIGINAL A, but not in ORIGINAL B. I want any folder in DESTINATION C

Does anyone know a terminal command?

command-line

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  1. Best Answer

    Try:

    rsync -aP /ORIGINAL_A/* /DESTINATION_C/

    This is like a copy of the folder A

    rsync -aP /ORIGINAL_B/* /DESTINATION_C/

    That should sync the folders A an B to another the new folder C.

    You could sync the file from A to B directly but you don't will have data loss this way.

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