No you all did a great job!! Thank all of you for your suggestions! I just need to play with cp some more. It does not work the way I expect. Probably those 10 years I spent on the DOS command line - my formative years :)
------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Fri, 8/13/10, Lisa Kachold <lisakach...@obnosis.com> wrote: From: Lisa Kachold <lisakach...@obnosis.com> Subject: Re: Linux CP command To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> Date: Friday, August 13, 2010, 11:26 AM Glad you got it. sudo cp -r for directory is required; and paths can be difficult. Sheesh, you asked us clearly, but it took 10 volleys to get you an answer.We will have to try harder. On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:55 AM, keith smith <klsmith2...@yahoo.com> wrote: I think I tried that also. I ended up doing a dump and an import. Thank you all for your help and insight! ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Fri, 8/13/10, Shawn Badger <badger.sh...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Shawn Badger <badger.sh...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Linux CP command To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us> Date: Friday, August 13, 2010, 7:32 AM Mysql stores the databases in an individual folder for each database. You need to use -r (recursive) option with the cp to make it work properly. Eric had the right syntext in his posting, but the trailing /. isnt' needed. sudo cp -r DB1 DB2 On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Brian Cluff <br...@snaptek.com> wrote: sudo cp DB1/* DB2/ should have worked. The fact that it's giving you a file not found is a little confusing. My guess is that you have either have a typo in the source database folder name, or more likely you haven't taken into account that Linux file systems are case sensitive. Brian Cluff On 08/12/2010 04:17 PM, keith smith wrote: Hi, For some reason I just don't get the cp command. Maybe it is the deep rooted MS DOS from the 80's and 90's. I spent about a decade using MS DOS. Here is what is going on. I am in a CentOS box and do not ever become root. I use sudo. I want to copy one MySql DB to another so I can use the data for testing. 1) I cd to /var/lib/mysql 2) I can see both DB's 3) I issue any number of commands that do not work. Lets say DB1 is the source directory & DB2 is the destination directory mysql]$ sudo cp DB1/*.* DB2/ Results: cp: cannot stat `DB1/*.*': No such file or directory mysql]$ sudo cp DB1/* DB2/ Results: cp: cannot stat `DB1/*': No such file or directory mysql]$ sudo cp DB1/ DB2/ Results: creates the directory DB1 under DB2 and copies all the files into DB2/DB1 mysql]$ sudo cp DB1 DB2/ Results: does not seem to do anything. http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ucp.htm shows this example: cp -r /home/hope/files/* /home/hope/backup mysql]$ sudo cp -r /var/lib/mysql/DB1/* /var/lib/mysql/DB2 - cp: cannot stat `/var/lib/mysql/baseline/*': No such file or directory This is driving me crazy. Any help much appreciated! ------------------------ Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -----Inline Attachment Follows----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Office: (602)239-3392 AT&T: (503)754-4452 http://it-clowns.com "Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. " --Stanislav Lem -----Inline Attachment Follows----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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