On Tuesday 23 May 2006 09:17 am, Duncan Anderson wrote: > No problem. I like the mosquito/sledgehammer analogy. Tell me, do you know > how to overcome the problem of file names being rejected by find when they > contain spaces, etc.?
No never had any of those probs, I think. What exactly do you mean? All files including the ones with spaces show up. I mostly use find in combination with cpio to copy/move contents from one (usually almost full) partition to another. Never lost a file. Just yesterday I copied a 7G partition's content (my old 32_bit / partition I still keep in reserve) from a dying HD to a new one. Compared 'em and didn't loose a single thing. Still boots up fine after editing its "/etc/fstab". the whole (lovely unixy) command is "find . | cpio -padm /mnt/new_partition" whilst being in the topmopst directory of the to be copied partition, BTW. -- Good luck, HarM ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
