On Sunday 11 May 2003 04:21, Franz Knuts wrote:
Le Dimanche 11 Mai 2003 09:04, Bob S. a écrit :
Second, command line: ex: cp -p /home/bob /windows/F get a message cp: omitting directory "/home/bob" or if I cd higher
You must add -R flag. This realizes a recursive copy of directories.
But Ben's method in previous post is better. There is one file and thus copy is really faster.
into "home" and I do a cp -p /bob /windows/F, I get this response: cp: cannot stat '/bob' no such file or directory.
^error no need of '/'
Franz ================
Ben & Franz, I have a question now since the discussion mentions tar. Well actually I have two, but I'll put them both in one. ;o) If you do tar your home, as you mention, will that also gather up all the dot files (hidden) as well and when you bring the tar file back to decompress, will it overwrite all those newly created duplicate files & directories or error out? Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5.1 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...