Hi, all! In one of my web pages, as part of a larger overall procedure, I give instructions for copying an entire partition. The basic procedure involves mounting one partition on /media and the other on /mnt. Then the files are copied between partitions by means of
cp -a /media/* /mnt This seems to work OK except if there are "dot files" (files with names beginning with a period) in the top directory of the source partition. To generalize the procedure to handle this case, I modified it as follows: GLOBIGNORE=.:.. cp -a /media/* /mnt unset GLOBIGNORE This works fine for bash. Unfortunately, when using the Debian Installer in a rescue-type situation, the shell is ash, not bash, and GLOBIGNORE has no special meaning to ash. When using ash, so far the best I have come up with is cp -a /media/* /mnt for i in /media/.*;do if [ $i != /media/. -a $i != /media/.. ];then cp -a $i /mnt;fi;done Of course, special handling is necessary to avoid processing "." (the current directory) and ".." (the parent directory). Does anyone know a better way? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2448749.13149831266427118246.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
