[Techtalk] New to the list...new to linux

Tianna Thomas tiannat at hitsites.com
Sat Sep 29 17:24:20 EST 2001


Do I need the /'s ?

Me=clueless

Tianna

-----Original Message-----
From: Kath [mailto:kath at kathweb.net]
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 5:22 PM
To: Tianna Thomas; techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] New to the list...new to linux


I think:
cp /dir1/* /dir2/

or if you are already in dir1

cp * /dir2/

Would do that :)

- k

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tianna Thomas" <tiannat at hitsites.com>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 7:57 PM
Subject: [Techtalk] New to the list...new to linux


> ACK!  I'm a Win NT admin trying to run a unix box for the first time and
I'm
> just learning...well...nothing!
>
> All of this command line stuff is giving me a serious headache...any help
> here would be appreciated.  Specifically, I need to copy the entire
contents
> of one directory into another directory...is there a way to do this all at
> once or do I need to do it file by file? (Now's the time when I miss
> drag-n-drop and copy/paste).  Exact commands would be helpful...I'm
> completely lost (and a little nutz by now).
>
> Oh yeah...HI EVERYONE!  You'll probably be seeing me a lot in the near
> future.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help...
>
> Tianna
>
>
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