> > And the first time I copied the files, I wanted to have all the .files
> > copied too, so I ran cp .* -Rv ~ and went into an infinite loop!
>
> .* includes the parent directory .., so of course it would. If I want
> to copy an entire directory, I use an archiving utility, usually tar:
>
> tar -cO . |tar -C <where I want it> -xf -
>
> I don't know off hand how to change permissions while copying, but it is
> easy enough to do chmod -R <what you want> <where it is>
> FI chmod -R 660 ~/
Generally, when I want to copy an entire directory structure, I use the -r
(recursive) switch on cp:
cp -rv /mnt/cdrom/* /home/james/cdcopy/
(the "v" switch is of course for verbose).
JFK
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