Copying all files and directories from one dir to another

[SirwanAfifi]

I'm using this command to copy all files from build directory to `dist:

copyfiles -u 1 build/* dist

It works fine except it doesn't copy directories, How can we make sure it also copies the directories with files inside recursively?

[calvinmetcalf]

try copyfiles -u 1 build/**/* dist

[SirwanAfifi]

It doesn't work.

[calvinmetcalf]

try copyfiles -u 1 "build/**/*" dist and let me know the results

[SirwanAfifi]

It worked! thanks

[SirwanAfifi]

Only works on Windows: copyfiles -u 1 build/**/* dist
Only works on macOS: copyfiles -u 1 "build/**/*" dist

[calvinmetcalf]

what are the issues you get on the different platforms

[SirwanAfifi]

Nothing happens, it doesn't move the files

[calvinmetcalf]

so on windows with the quotes and macOS without the quotes it does nothing ?

[SirwanAfifi]

That's right.

[kuncevic]

Had similar issue. Have to use quotes to make it work on mac, otherwise won't include any folders

[Diokuz]

Probably flag --source would be more obvious for users.

[calvinmetcalf]

@Diokuz not sure what you're replying to..

[hieuhoangtrung]

Just find a workaround that you can escape the double quote \": copyfiles -u 1 \"build/**/*\" dist
cc @calvinmetcalf @SirwanAfifi

[brettz9]

@hieuhoangtrung : The workaround isn't working for me on the Mac, at least with an npm script (for the sake of JSON, including, before each double quote, two backslashes to represent the backslash and one backslash to escape the double quote). Doing so causes nothing to be copied.

[tvvignesh]

try copyfiles -u 1 "build/**/*" dist and let me know the results

It would be great if you could add this to the docs. I was using without quotes for close to 1 year and was using some hacks thinking that it was a bug but then, using quotes solved the issue for me now.

To copy all files except *.ts files recursively (with folders) from src to dist folder, I had to do:

npx copyfiles -u 1 -e \"src/**/*.ts\" \"src/**/*.*\" dist/ and then it worked perfectly.

Thanks.

[EliasTouil]

Only works on Windows: copyfiles -u 1 build/**/* dist
Only works on macOS: copyfiles -u 1 "build/**/*" dist

Hello @SirwanAfifi , Is this still valid?
Is there a workaround that will work on both windows and mac?

[SirwanAfifi]

@EliasTouil Yes it is valid

[MetaMmodern]

Hey, we still have this issue open. Any progress?

[stealthrabbi]

Only works on Windows: copyfiles -u 1 build/**/* dist
Only works on macOS: copyfiles -u 1 "build/**/*" dist

Hello @SirwanAfifi , Is this still valid?
Is there a workaround that will work on both windows and mac?

I don't have a Mac to test on, but I have found that copyfiles -u 1 "build/**/*" dist works both on Windows and Linux. It's quite possible that that option works on Mac as well. I'm on 2.4.1 of copyfiles, which is the latest at the moment.

I'm not sure what adding the double quotes does. I'm not working with paths that have spaces in them.