Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2114 mails)

[Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BandiPat wrote:
> On Saturday 01 September 2007, primm wrote:
>>>> simplist answer:
>>>>
>>>> cp * members/
>>>>
>>>> lose the -a
>>>>
>>>> it won't try to copy members to itself.
>>> It won't copy all the folders (sic: directories).
>> I tried that but then I lose the permission settings I made on the
>> original directores and files.:-(
>>
>> To repeat. It just has to be mc or rsync.
>>
>> But I'm wondering. Is there anyway of getting into my cli only server
>> from a kde client on my lan? Or does the server have to have X
>> installed too to be able to do that?
>>
>> Love from Lynn.
> 
> ==========
> 
> Lynn,
> I've watched all these shell commands in this thread and nobody has 
> mentioned that you could use something like Konqueror for what you want 
> to do easily.
> 
> Just to copy, open konqueror as file manager, do a split window from the 
> menu, gather your directories one each in either pane, then copy.  
> Click & drag.  Simple & quick and I'm assuming you are using KDE as 
> your window manager.  I've also found filezilla just recently, which I 
> like for the same functions in xfce4.

One thing the OP had as a limitation was no GUI. I would have thought
the . trick should have worked (easier to remember, IMO, than the rsync
command):

$ mkdir .members
$ cp -a * .members
$ mv .members members

BTW, I just made this a Question of the Day on Linux Brain Dump! Readers
here aren't allowed to answer it:-)

With a GUI, I would have opened the folder, done a select all, ctrl-clicked
the members folder, and dragged the rest to the members folder. A problem
is that under Konqueror, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to preserve
the attributes (ala -a). Under Krusader (my fav file manager these days),
if you right click on Copy..., there's an option to preserve the attributes.

To answer another question in this thread, I'm just a long time software
engineer who admins several of his own systems.

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