On Saturday 01 September 2007 01:04, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2007 00:41:31 primm wrote: > > I've 800 or so files and folders in a folder called nonmembers. I mkdir > > another folder in the folder nonmembers called members. I want to copy > > all the 800 files in nonmembers to members. I'm in the nonmembers folder > > at the command line. What do I type? Sounds easy doesn't it. I tried cp > > -a * members but that of course includes members. I suppose I want to say > > 'copy everything in the nonmembers folder that was there before I made > > the members folder to the members folder'. If I had a gui I would simply > > drag and drop. > > The quickie way would be to do > > export GLOBIGNORE=members > > and then do "cp -a * members" again > > Another quickie would be to name it .members while you're copying, since * > doesn't include files that start with a dot > > Beyond that we're into regular expressions, and then it starts getting > messy :) > > Anders
Thanks everyone. It was the dot that did it. Have one on me. Love from Lynn. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
