-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > I'm fine with the selection of applications for 64 Studio 3.0 beta, but > I'm confused about the behaviour of Ubuntu. > > As user (no sudo -i) using the default terminal (emulation), I tried to > copy all folders and files from the Firefox's default profile to a > second profile. "Hidden" files were not copied by using the wildcard > "*", when running the "cp" command, Doing a copy and paste by using > Nautilus was fine. I don't know this behaviour from any other Linux. For > example, 64 Studio 2.1 and Suse 11.1 are interpreting the wildcard "*" > as "*" and won't ignore hidden files. > cp --help You probably forgot to use the -a flag
cp -a .mozilla/firefox/<profile a> .mozilla/firefox/<profile b> I would personally use rsync: rsync -rvu --progress .mozilla/firefox/<profile a>/ .mozilla/firefox/<profile b> Note, that slashes are very important to rsync, so you really need to RTFM before using rsync. > I guess there is a POSIX definition ;). > Not a POSIX thing, you just need to read the documentation. --help would have probably been all that you needed. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkn6NXkACgkQwRXgH3rKGfMSLQCfUt2QBbl9P9LnCeWKVAHOVzcs ZlQAn0YivhX9s+420QvmvDt9j2/e+mre =pp1z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
