[wplug] Simple CP question..

mikeslists at access995.com mikeslists at access995.com
Fri Apr 2 12:13:53 EST 2004


Actually I was just using CP because I'm a newb that didn' know of rsync evening existing..  :)

I assume I read the rsync man page correctly that it worked..  I just went

rsync /home/source /newhome/dest -r

seems to be working so far..  

Thanks
-Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan S Billings
Sent: 4/2/2004 11:42:42 AM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] Simple CP question..

> On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 11:36, mikeslists at access995.com wrote:
> > Trying to move a home folder to another path..  trying to just use the cp command recursivly.
> > 
> > How can I tell cp to copy the hidden folders?  
> > 
> > I tried cp .* /blah/blah    but this wound up trying to copy everything below my home folder too since .* would naturally include ..
> > 
> > If that makes sense to you, and help would be much appreceated!
> > 
> > -Mike
> 
> If you must use cp, try copying the directory recursively, rather than
> trying to get everything with a glob.  For example, 
> 
> cp -r /home/billings /backup/home/
> 
> If you are really trying to just get the dot-files and dot-directories,
> you could use cp -r .??* (assuming that all dotfiles are longer than
> three characters).  This'll skip '.' and '..'.
> 
> You probably would do better by not using cp at all, and use tar, rsync,
> etc. to copy everything.
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>
> 
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