Doll, Margaret Ann wrote: > I am doing an "rsync" from one array to another. > > I looked at the the files on the disk to which I am copying this morning. > "ls" showed three copies of some of the folders and one copy of others. > "ls -sal" showed that the three copies of a folder, seemed to have the > same contents. > > I made a new directory newadmin, "cd"ed into the admin directory, "mv" all > the files in the admin directory to newadmin, "cd .." and did another > listing. Now all the directories were there, but the duplicates were > gone. Why did this happen? > > nas-0-0 dist]# ls > admin bco cha jad > admin bco class > admin bco class > > ls -sal admin > total 4 > 0 drwxrwxrwx 4 nobody nobody 52 Dec 25 2011 . > 4 drwxrwxrwx 34 root root 4096 Apr 21 08:28 .. > 0 drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nobody 55 Sep 14 2007 atipa > 0 drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nobody 87 Oct 15 2007 export-restore > 0 -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody nobody 0 Sep 10 2007 ge.out > [root@nas-0-0 dist]# ls -sal admin* <snip> This would get admin, and everything under it... including, if they existed, ~admin/admin/admin. mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list