On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:16:50PM +0100, James Preece wrote: > This is probably a simple question but I can't find the answer > anywhere and my friend Google won't search for ./ and 'copy' brings up > all sorts. > > Basically, I've got a folder containing various files for a website > (for simplicity lets say it's this): > > /mydirectory/index.html > /mydirectory/images/image.gif > > I want to make a backup so in the /mydirectory/ folder I do: > > cp -r ./ backup > > I wanted his to result in: > > /mydirectory/index.html > /mydirectory/images/image.gif > /mydirectory/backup/index.html > /mydirectory/backup/images/image.gif > > Does that make sense? The error I get is: > > cp: cannot copy a directory, `./', into itself, `backup' > > Is there a way to have cp ignore the newly created directory? Something like: > > cp -r ./ backup --ignore=backup
I usually do:
cp -a ./* ./.* backup/
You'll get an error when it tries to copy backup into itself, but
everything else will be copied fine.
Ben
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