-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Arnold wrote: > BandiPat wrote: >> On Saturday 01 September 2007, primm wrote: >>>>> simplist answer: >>>>> >>>>> cp * members/ >>>>> >>>>> lose the -a >>>>> >>>>> it won't try to copy members to itself. >>>> It won't copy all the folders (sic: directories). >>> I tried that but then I lose the permission settings I made on the >>> original directores and files.:-( >>> >>> To repeat. It just has to be mc or rsync. >>> >>> But I'm wondering. Is there anyway of getting into my cli only server >>> from a kde client on my lan? Or does the server have to have X >>> installed too to be able to do that? >>> >>> Love from Lynn. >> ========== >> >> Lynn, >> I've watched all these shell commands in this thread and nobody has >> mentioned that you could use something like Konqueror for what you want >> to do easily. >> >> Just to copy, open konqueror as file manager, do a split window from the >> menu, gather your directories one each in either pane, then copy. >> Click & drag. Simple & quick and I'm assuming you are using KDE as >> your window manager. I've also found filezilla just recently, which I >> like for the same functions in xfce4. > > One thing the OP had as a limitation was no GUI. I would have thought > the . trick should have worked (easier to remember, IMO, than the rsync > command): > > $ mkdir .members > $ cp -a * .members > $ mv .members members > > BTW, I just made this a Question of the Day on Linux Brain Dump! Readers > here aren't allowed to answer it:-) > > With a GUI, I would have opened the folder, done a select all, ctrl-clicked > the members folder, and dragged the rest to the members folder. A problem > is that under Konqueror, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to preserve > the attributes (ala -a). Under Krusader (my fav file manager these days), > if you right click on Copy..., there's an option to preserve the attributes. > > To answer another question in this thread, I'm just a long time software > engineer who admins several of his own systems. >
BTW I first came across this peculiarity of cp (the hard way crashing a SUN workstation after a typo ;-) ) 20 years ago and I as I was a bit surprised that the recursive self copy of a directory was still not picked up as something that is probably not a good thing to allow to happen, so I decided to do a little test (nice and safely on a floppy :-) ). The result was interesting, the files copied OK and a empty copy of the directory appeared and error about copying a directory on to itself occurred. The original held... fileA fileB test test2 where test and test2 are directories after.. cp -a + test one ended up with test containing fileA fileB test test2 with test with the original contents of test... (After performing a second ... cp -a * test test/test had the contents fileA fileB test test2 and so on ad infinitum... but that is to be expected) so it occurs to me that.... cp -a * test ; rmdir test/test is probably equally OK if test is empty !?!... Now this could be a quirk due to the FAT fs on the floppy... maybe someone is prepared to risk a partition (and possibly their sanity) to verify this on another FS and maybe we have a 'Much ado about nothing' scenario. To the other question I have worked as a, programmers, systems programmer, systems admin for a long time (mainly in an academic environment)... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG2tH9asN0sSnLmgIRAh1HAKC/tRjxD4BBeU4F1fU02KA5MpKqzwCfcetU DtV7XGRqQEoSV+fdaeZzUeI= =kftn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
