copying files

Brian McCann Brian.McCann at viziant.net
Wed Aug 29 17:03:05 EDT 2007


 
 
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Hi Ricardo,

what do the + signs do?
 

________________________________

From: Ricardo Aráoz [mailto:ricaraoz at gmail.com]
Sent: Wed 8/29/2007 2:51 PM
To: Brian McCann
Cc: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: copying files



Brian McCann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> with the code below I set a variable TEST_HOME to a path and the
> variable m to a path
> in my current dir.
> I have a symbolic link setting m---->lib
> when I run the script I get no errors and the lib dir with its 20 files
> does not get copied to /v01/test_home
> any help would be greatly appreciated
> 
> --Brian
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import string
> import os
> import sys
> import errno
> import shutil
> import tarfile
> 
> TEST_HOME = "/v01/test_home"
> m = "./lib"
> os.system("cp -r m TEST_HOME")
> #os.system("tar -cvf viziant-ingestion.tar /v01/")
> 

Sorry, meant : os.system("cp -r " + m + " " + TEST_HOME)




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