On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:26:43 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:18:38 Stephen Powell wrote:
Then the files
are copied between partitions by means of
cp -a /media/* /mnt
This seems to work OK except if there are dot files (files with names
beginning
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:04:32 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 13:40:20 Stephen Powell wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:26:43 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Use this instead:
cp -a /media/. /mnt
OR
cp -a /media/{.[!.],}* /mnt
Your second
On 20100218_130038, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:04:32 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 13:40:20 Stephen Powell wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:26:43 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Use this instead:
cp -a /media/. /mnt
OR
Hi, all!
In one of my web pages, as part of a larger overall procedure, I give
instructions for copying an entire partition. The basic procedure involves
mounting one partition on /media and the other on /mnt. Then the files
are copied between partitions by means of
cp -a /media/* /mnt
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:18:38 Stephen Powell wrote:
Then the files
are copied between partitions by means of
cp -a /media/* /mnt
This seems to work OK except if there are dot files (files with names
beginning with a period) in the top directory of the source partition.
Use
On Qua, 17 Fev 2010, Stephen Powell wrote:
In one of my web pages, as part of a larger overall procedure, I give
instructions for copying an entire partition.
[snip]
Of course, special handling is necessary to avoid processing . (the current
directory) and .. (the parent directory). Does anyone
Stephen Powell schreef:
Hi, all!
In one of my web pages, as part of a larger overall procedure, I give
instructions for copying an entire partition. The basic procedure involves
mounting one partition on /media and the other on /mnt. Then the files
are copied between partitions by means
17.02.2010 19:18, Stephen Powell kirjoitti:
[...]
Of course, special handling is necessary to avoid processing . (the current
directory) and .. (the parent directory). Does anyone know a better way?
tar cf . | tar -C /target -xpf -
or
find . -depth -print0 |cpio --null -pvd /target
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
Stephen Powell schreef:
Hi, all!
In one of my web pages, as part of a larger overall procedure, I give
instructions for copying an entire partition. The basic procedure involves
mounting one partition on /media and the other on /mnt. Then the files
are copied
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:26:43 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:18:38 Stephen Powell wrote:
Then the files
are copied between partitions by means of
cp -a /media/* /mnt
This seems to work OK except if there are dot files (files with names
rsync -a /media/ /mnt/
This is good. Note that the trailing / on /media/ is significant.
OR
find /media -exec cp -a {} /mnt \;
No, that is both wrong and very inefficient:-
Wrong
-
Try this:
mkdir /tmp/media /tmp/mnt
mkdir -p /tmp/media/a/b/c
touch /tmp/media/a/aa /tmp/media/a/b/bb
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 13:40:20 Stephen Powell wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:26:43 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Use this instead:
cp -a /media/. /mnt
OR
cp -a /media/{.[!.],}* /mnt
Your second method doesn't work in ash because ash does not support
brace
Bob McGowan schreef:
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
Stephen Powell schreef:
Hi, all!
In one of my web pages, as part of a larger overall procedure, I give
instructions for copying an entire partition. The basic procedure involves
mounting one partition on /media and the other on /mnt.
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