On 07/16/2010 10:33 AM, Roger Oberholtzer pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 10:27 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Rodney Baker wrote:
Copy (or, better still, rsync) everything from/usr/share/ to /overflow/share. If you use rsync -Cavvh you will preserve ownership and permissions and get verbose human-readable progress reports as you go. Doesn't cp -av also do that?
Yes it does. I would use cp. rsync is only needed if doing this between two different machines over a network.
Wrong. rsync can be used on the same machine to copy files from one directory to another. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org