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.
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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. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) LinuxBrainDump, Linux HowTo's and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbrainddump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org