Re: dumb cp problem...help please.

2003-02-02 Thread Mark Neidorff
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

Re: dumb cp problem...help please.

2003-02-02 Thread Matthew Saltzman
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

Re: dumb cp problem...help please.

2003-02-02 Thread Mark Neidorff
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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: dumb cp problem...help please.

2003-02-02 Thread Gerry Doris
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

dumb cp problem...help please.

2003-02-02 Thread Mark Neidorff
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