On 2005-12-05 18:44, user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, David Kelly wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:56:22PM -0500, user wrote: > > [...] > > > - since I live in 2005, what can I do to my FreeBSD system to upgrade > > > it to handle the directories I have ? How do I fix this so I can do > > > normal, simple command lines instead of butchered ridiculous hacks > > > like above ? > > > > Upgrade the user. Start with the man page to xargs(1) as you are far > > from the first to have this problem. > > > > Is well and good that there be some limit to how much data one can pack > > on the command line and incoming arglist in an application's > > environment else fumble fingers could cause major havoc. IIRC its > > currently 10k bytes. > > > Yes, in addition to for loops, I also know how to use xargs. I can use > find. I can do all sorts of trickery. > > What I want to know is, how can I just use cp ?
Move a level upwards. If this fails: $ cd ~/foo $ mkdir ~/bar $ cp * ~/bar this has better chances of working as expected: $ cd ~ $ cp -Rp foo bar _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"