Command Line Migration Assistant

[rkasowan]

Hello-

I'm trying to develop the ability to do command line program migrations in Mac OS X. I would like to be able to read a file, in this case Mail.pkg, and have a script that copies the application and any support files elsewhere on the drive to another computer.

I think the syntax should be something like:

#!/bin/sh
for file in `lsbom $1/Contents/Archive.bom`
do
cp "$file" "$2"
done

And then the command line:

$ sh script.sh /Library/Reciepts/Mail.pkg /Volumes/OtherHDD

I need someway to tell my script to copy the file and the directories it should be in without overwriting possible existing directories. I thought that was -R, but when I use -R I get all of the files in the root directory. I'm trying to copy a program and all of its required resources from someone's old computer to their new computer - like Migration Assistant in OS X. I know there is an easy way to make this happen on the command line.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for your time.

-= robbie =-

[Freston]

I think raising the -i flag on your cp command does what you need.