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[Matthew Stringer <qube@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

primm wrote:
> I've 800 or so files and folders in a folder called nonmembers. I mkdir 
> another folder in the folder nonmembers called members. I want to copy all 
> the 800 files in nonmembers to members. I'm in the nonmembers folder at the 
> command line. What do I type? Sounds easy doesn't it. I tried cp -a * members 
> but that of course includes members. I suppose I want to say 'copy everything 
> in the nonmembers folder that was there before I made the members folder to 
> the members folder'. If I had a gui I would simply drag and drop.
>
> Thanks. Lynn.

simplist answer:

cp * members/

lose the -a

it won't try to copy members to itself.

M.


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