Addons/general/dirtrees

general/dirtrees - Directory tree utilities

• Provides verbs for copying and deleting directory trees.
• The dirutils addon must also be installed.

Browse source and examples in github.

Verbs

copytree	v	Copies directory tree from directory y to directory x
deltree	v	Deletes directory tree

Installation

Use JAL/Package Manager to install the dirtrees and dirutils addons.

Usage

Load dirtrees addon with the following line

   load 'general/dirtrees'

To see the sampler of usage, run the test_dirtrees.ijs script.

• Open the script open 'general/dirtrees/test'
• Select all contents using Ctrl+A
• Run Selection using Ctrl+E

Here is typical session output from the test.ijs script.

Authors

• Ric Sherlock

See Also

• JForum:programming/2007-August/007622, Forum thread that prompted this.
• Chris Burke suggested in the thread above that another option for copying a directory tree is to zip and unzip it. This can be done using the zip tool shipped with J and the UnZip script, or using the arc/zip Addon and the arc/ziptrees Addon.
• The dirutils addon.