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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">one thing I just noticed is that
when I run the script I get a new symbolic link<BR>created in my current
dir TEST_HOME------>lib<BR>--Brian</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
python-list-bounces+brian.mccann=viziant.net@python.org on behalf of Brian
McCann<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 8/29/2007 2:40 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
python-list@python.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> copying files <BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>with the code below I set a variable
TEST_HOME to a path and the variable m to a path<BR>in my current dir.
<BR>I have a symbolic link setting m---->lib<BR>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</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>any help would be greatly
appreciated</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>--Brian</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV dir=ltr><BR>#!/usr/bin/python</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>import string<BR>import os<BR>import sys<BR>import errno<BR>import
shutil<BR>import tarfile</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>TEST_HOME = "/v01/test_home"</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>m = "./lib"</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>os.system("cp -r m TEST_HOME")<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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