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

[Kai MacTane]

At 9/29/01 05:24 PM , Tianna Thomas wrote:
>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 :)

But only if the directory has no subdirectories. And this will also change 
the ownership on the files, which may be a problem. Two solutions that will 
give better results, assuming you want to move /foo/bar/movethis to 
/baz/quux/target:

1) cp -a /foo/bar/movethis /baz/quux/target

2) mv /foo/bar/movethis /baz/quux/target

Which one do you want? Depends whether you want to copy, or move. But 
either of these commands will transfer subdirectories and keep ownerships 
intact.

                                                 --Kai MacTane
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