I have a new drive, I want to cp my windows instalation to it so I don't have to get some one to read the setup screens to me to re setup windows. Will cp or mv move the whole contense of my fat32 windows C:\> to another drive including hidden/system/readonly/longfilenames/anything I forgot? Pete P.S. I would rather use the cp command rather than the mv command. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 2:39 PM Subject: Re: trplayer and realplayer I do: "cp -a " /cdrom/mydir/ /tmp/otherdir/ and it recurses and works just fine. Greg On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:05:44PM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Igor - > > That would have worked fine if your source was not on a CD. The > thing is, the MV command wants to erase the source after putting > it somewhere else, and your CD is not erasable. You might want to > use "cp" instead with a flag to make it recursive. Probably the > flag would be -r but I would check first. > > Chuck > > On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > Hi Chuck. How do you mv it so that the directory doesn't get omitted? As an example, I was trying to move an entire directory tree from Cd to hard disk (/usr/src). My syntax was something like this: mv /mnt/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/source /usr/src. This should work under Dos, but doesn't seem to work under Linux. Just to make sure, I added a *.* before the /usr/src. In both cases, I get a message like: mv: directory has been omitted. And it doesn't move anything. In this example, I'm not saying that I am trying to do this, although I did try it before. Basically, what would be the syntax to move a directory tree? Let's say I created a tempdir for a tar archive and untarred it. And it created a dir in /temp, therefore the tree would be /temp/package. Let's say I want to move /package to /usr/local. Also, package has subdirs that I want to have moved as well. What would be the syntax to move package to /usr/local and all subdirs? > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Charles Hallenbeck <hallenbeck at valstar.net> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 9:47 AM > > Subject: Re: trplayer and realplayer > > > > > > > Hi Igor - > > > > > > I have had that problem too. On my Slackware system the "less" > > > command is installed in such a way that it automatically shows > > > the files contained in a tar archive. The first file listed will > > > be a directory if the archive will be one that creates its own > > > directory. > > > > > > If your "less" will not do that, you can always create a > > > temporary directory and untar the thing in there. If it does > > > create its own directory under your temporary one, you can just > > > "mv" the thing to where you want it. > > > > > > HTH - Chuck > > > > > > > > > > > > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > > > The Moon is Waning Crescent (17% of Full) > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > The Moon is Waning Crescent (16% of Full) > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
