source: trunk/essentials/sys-libs/ncurses/tar-copy.sh

#!/bin/sh
# $Id: tar-copy.sh,v 1.5 2003/10/25 14:40:07 tom Exp $
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# Author: Thomas E. Dickey
#
# Copy a collection of files using 'tar', so that their dates and links are
# preserved
#
# Parameters:
#       $1 = files to copy
#       $2 = source directory
#       $3 = destination directory
#
#DOIT=echo
DOIT=eval

if test $# != 3 ; then
        echo "Usage: $0 files source target"
        exit 1
elif test ! -d "$2" ; then
        echo "Source directory not found: $2"
        exit 1
elif test ! -d "$3" ; then
        echo "Target directory not found: $3"
        exit 1
fi

WD=`pwd`

TMP=$WD/copy$$

cd $2
TEST=`ls -d $1 2>/dev/null`
if test -z "$TEST"
then
        echo "... no match for \"$1\" in $2"
else
        echo "... installing files matching \"$1\" in $2"
        trap "rm -f $TMP" 0 1 2 5 15
        if ( tar cf $TMP $1 )
        then
                cd $3
                LIST=`tar tf $TMP 2>&1`
                $DOIT rm -rf $LIST 2>/dev/null
                $DOIT tar xvf $TMP
        else
                echo "Cannot create tar of $1 files"
                exit 1
        fi
fi