BandiPat wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2007, primm wrote: >>>> simplist answer: >>>> >>>> cp * members/ >>>> >>>> lose the -a >>>> >>>> it won't try to copy members to itself. >>> It won't copy all the folders (sic: directories). >> I tried that but then I lose the permission settings I made on the >> original directores and files.:-( >> >> To repeat. It just has to be mc or rsync. >> >> But I'm wondering. Is there anyway of getting into my cli only server >> from a kde client on my lan? Or does the server have to have X >> installed too to be able to do that? >> >> Love from Lynn. > > ========== > > Lynn, > I've watched all these shell commands in this thread and nobody has > mentioned that you could use something like Konqueror for what you want > to do easily. > > Just to copy, open konqueror as file manager, do a split window from the > menu, gather your directories one each in either pane, then copy. > Click & drag. Simple & quick and I'm assuming you are using KDE as > your window manager. I've also found filezilla just recently, which I > like for the same functions in xfce4.
One thing the OP had as a limitation was no GUI. I would have thought the . trick should have worked (easier to remember, IMO, than the rsync command): $ mkdir .members $ cp -a * .members $ mv .members members BTW, I just made this a Question of the Day on Linux Brain Dump! Readers here aren't allowed to answer it:-) With a GUI, I would have opened the folder, done a select all, ctrl-clicked the members folder, and dragged the rest to the members folder. A problem is that under Konqueror, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to preserve the attributes (ala -a). Under Krusader (my fav file manager these days), if you right click on Copy..., there's an option to preserve the attributes. To answer another question in this thread, I'm just a long time software engineer who admins several of his own systems. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) LinuxBrainDump, Linux HowTo's and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbrainddump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
