"Christopher D. Reimer" wrote:
At 06:03 PM 10/28/00 +0200, Eilert Brinkmann wrote:
`cp -av /cdrom/. /pub/linux/suse/6.3/all` should do it.
This would copy all the dot-files without a wildcard symbol? Either cp is lot more intelligent than I'm willing to grant it, or my wildcard skills from my DOS days stink. :)
You don't need wildcard skills to understand this command. Each directory has an entry "." that points to the directory itself (like ".." points to the parent directory). So this command recursivly copies the directory "/cdrom/." with it's entire content to "/pub/linux/suse/6.3/all/." (unlike `cp -a /cdrom /pub/...`, which would create a directory "cdrom" in your destination directory). Eilert -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eilert Brinkmann -- Universitaet Bremen -- FB 3, Informatik eilert@informatik.uni-bremen.de - eilert@tzi.org - eilert@linuxfreak.com http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~eilert/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq