-- Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Friday, 04 April 2003, 10:21 PM +0200): > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 02:04:09PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > -- Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > find usr|cpio -pmd /mnt/newusr > > should be > > cd /usr > find . | cpio -pmd /mnt/newusr > > or you will get /mnt/newusr/usr/ > > > What does this do? I've used find before, but I'm not familiar with the > > '-pmd' options; man doesn't elaborate on them, either. > > -pmd are options for cpio. Basically, it copies all files listed on > standard input to the directory /mnt/newusr (p=passthrough, m=modify > timestamp, d=create directories as needed). The net result is the same > as cp -ar, but that one is not available on all unix systems > The real way of doing this is of course: > > cd /usr > find . -print |cpio -o |(cd /mnt/newusr;cpio -ivmd) > > This should work on any unix system you find.
Thanks for the clarification -- I'd though 'usr|cpio' was an or'd regexp; this makes *much* more sense now. Thanks for the help... off to parted my drive and move /usr to the new partition! -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://matthew.weierophinney.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
