Copy directory recursively?

[Dieterbe]

I have a lot of entries like this (one per wifi network i've ever connected to)

CopyFile /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/blah.nmconnection 600

and every few weeks when i run 'aconfmgr save' i usually have a few more.

my general philosphy on this is, i rather not ignore these, and prefer to include them all, so that a restored system can immediately access any network i've previously connected to.
However i don't care about all the individual files, i just see it as one ever growing set

Is there a way to just have 1 directive that says "copy the entire directory" (both on apply and save) ? Seems CopyFile and CopyFileTo only work with files, not directories?

i haven't tried it yet, but maybe the solution is a helper similar to CopyFileTo, that uses cp -a and updates used_files for all files within? i'm probably missing some stuff.

[CyberShadow]

Making CopyFile recursive is half of it; another half would be to make aconfmgr save recognize that the configuration file is copying some directory recursively, so it doesn't need to emit CopyFile directives for missing files. However... that does go against aconfmgr's philosophy a bit, in that any change between the system and configuration is described by a line added to 99-unsorted.sh.

For now I suggest to approach this pragmatically and use a script which runs after aconfmgr save and automatically moves CopyFile directives to their right place, or copying the directory recursively then making the script delete unnecessary CopyFile directives.

[Dieterbe]

For now I suggest to approach this pedantically and use a script which runs after aconfmgr save and automatically moves CopyFile directives to their right place

fair enough, i'll do this. thanks