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Recursive copy #98
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I am not involved with
fs-extrathough I use it in my work. And, I find thecopyfunction incredibly useful.However, from the point of view of nodejs, I think the
copyfunction as implemented infs-extrais limited. Don't get me wrong, it is really good for day to day use, its just that recursive copy is a relatively complex operation.I would suggest that you consider
cp,rsyncand Windows Robocopy for inspiration.A few things, I would like are:
- A verbose output as a return value
- A filter that can take regex and/or glob array (most times I end up importing
picomatch)
Perhaps later you can add:
- Preserve attributes, permissions and time-stamps
- interactive mode
@iansu I just want to remind you that our copy implementation in
fs-extrais a bit different than unixcpcommand.For instance, in
fs-extra, when copying a file to a different directory, likecopy('src-file.js', 'some/dir/dest-file.js')the user requires to explicitly specify the destination file name meaningcopy('src-file.js', 'some/dir/')would fail infs-extrawhile it works fine in the unixcpcommand.That was a source of confusion for some of our users because they have this assumption that
fs-extrafunctions would work like unix commands (which is a fair assumption since node is very unix-y) but we atfs-extradecided to go with explicitness.So probably something that you might want to consider when deciding on the behavior of the function.
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on Aug 16, 2021
Implement a recursive copy command in Node.js. I have been drafting a proposal for this functionality in this document: https://hackmd.io/Q2O7hVyZSKClYW9Vyipeig
At this stage I'd like feedback from the Tooling group on the proposal. Once we're happy with it we can open an issue in the main Node.js repo to get broader feedback. If all goes well we can follow up with an implementation.