On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Mark Neidorff wrote:
>
>
> The filespec ".*" includes "." (current directory) and ".." (parent
> directory). If you don't want these (and the files below them, since you
> use the "-r" option), use ".??*". You might still miss f
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> Well, this should be dead easy...and I've read the man & info pages, but I
> still get this problem:
>
> I'm upgrading from 6.2 to 7.3. I have both installed and running on
> separate HDDs on this computer. I want to copy all of each user's files
> from
I used midnight commander instead and got the job done, so the pressure is
off, but I'd still like to know why I couldn't do it with cp.
Thanks,
Mark
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On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> Well, this should be dead easy...and I've read the man & info pages, but I
> still get this problem:
>
> I'm upgrading from 6.2 to 7.3. I have both installed and running on
> separate HDDs on this computer. I want to copy all of each user's files
> fro
Well, this should be dead easy...and I've read the man & info pages, but I
still get this problem:
I'm upgrading from 6.2 to 7.3. I have both installed and running on
separate HDDs on this computer. I want to copy all of each user's files
from the old system to the new. I have the new drive's h
The recursive flag is -R, not -r. From the cp man page:
"Historic versions of the cp utility had a -r option. This
implementation
supports that option, however, its use is strongly discouraged, as
it
does not correctly copy special files, symbolic links or fifo's."
Try using cp -R.
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 10:15, John T. Douglass wrote:
> This is not true. cp -r will in fact copy all the dot files. The
> recursive option of copy picks up everything. It does not however
> preserve the timestamps and links that the cp -a would (since the -a is
> the same as a -dpR).
>
> What
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 09:53, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:45:14AM -0500, Jianping Zhu wrote:
> > I have redhat 7.1 linux server. i want to cp /home/blackduck to
> > /home1/blackduck (about 12G), i use commant cp -r /home/blackduck under
> > /home1. but after i finished cp, i use du
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:45:14AM -0500, Jianping Zhu wrote:
> I have redhat 7.1 linux server. i want to cp /home/blackduck to
> /home1/blackduck (about 12G), i use commant cp -r /home/blackduck under
> /home1. but after i finished cp, i use du /home1/blackduck>b1 and du
> /home/blackduck>b2 to ch
I have redhat 7.1 linux server. i want to cp /home/blackduck to
/home1/blackduck (about 12G), i use commant cp -r /home/blackduck under
/home1. but after i finished cp, i use du /home1/blackduck>b1 and du
/home/blackduck>b2 to check and
found out that
/home/blackduck and /home1/blackduck are of dif
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