Cheryl, Why not: # cd /linux-2.4.20 # cp -a * <path-to>/linux-2.4.20-sp Hope that's what you want! --terry On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 07:24:20PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I can't seem to find the right way to do this. > I have compiled linux-2.4.20 and now want to copy the completed source tree to a > directory linux-2.4.20-sp. I don't want to just move it, because I still also > want the copy that is linux-2.4.20. If I use "cp" with -a -r or -R, the > subdirectories are copied but so is the top directory. So I end up with > linux-2.4.20-sp but with linux-2.4.20 beneath it; I want everything under the > linux-2.4.20 copied recursively to linux-2.4.20-sp; but without linux-2.4.20 at > the top. I know this may sound confusing. To put it another way, I want to copy > to the new directory everything you would get if you did an "ls" of the old > directory, plus I want to copy recursively; I just now want it all to be under > linux-2.4.20-sp with no linux-2.4.20 directory present. but I still want to > maintain the original tree from which I am copying. Without having to go > into linux-2.4.20 and copy each file in that directory and each directory > recursively over to linux-2.4.20-sp, Is there a way to do this? > > Thanks. > > Cheryl > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Name: Terry D. Cudney Phone: (705) 422-0039 E-mail: terry at CottageInWasaga.com Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool.
