Melodie Gauthier
Reputation: 715
Bash Copy folder content, not folder
I would like to copy the contents of a folder to another one, without copying the actual folder itself. For example, in /dirA/dirB/ I have a.txt, b.txt and c.txt. I would like to do:
cp -r /dirA/dirB/ /some/folder/
In a way that a.txt, b.txt and c.txt are in /some/folder, not in /some/folder/dirB
Upvotes: 0
Views: 173
Answers (1)
Jonathan Leffler
Reputation: 753675
cp /dirA/dirB/*.txt /some/folder
will do that, avoiding the -r option.
Upvotes: 5
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