On Dec 25, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > You were right. I just made a diff, and folders beginning with a dot > were not copied. I was simply using > $ cp --recursive --update *.* [...] [...] > > What would be these appropriate switches to achieve this?
I always just say 'cp -a .* <destination dir>' in addition to what you already did to copy (recursively) everything beginning with a period. If there are switches to do this, I've missed them in my reading of the man page. (Where 'a' here means 'archive mode', not 'all' as it does with ls :-) It might also help if you think of mounting as "on" rather than "in". Mount doesn't merge 2 directories / filesystems; it 'covers' (replaces) the contents of the destination with the contents of what is mounted. -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
