Peng Yu wrote:
> Suppose I have directory a and b, the following command will copy the
> content of a to b/a, rather than overwrite the directory 'b' by the
> directory 'a'. I'm wondering if there is an option to overwrite 'b'?
>
> cp -r a b
The 'cp' command will always copy source to destination
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 25 January 2010 12:22:09 Peng Yu wrote:
>> 'touch' will not make the file size empty if the file is not empty. I
>> don't not want to use 'rm -f' first then touch because I might
>> accidentally remove something if I type anything wrong. Could somebody
>> let me a
On Monday 25 January 2010 12:22:09 Peng Yu wrote:
> 'touch' will not make the file size empty if the file is not empty. I
> don't not want to use 'rm -f' first then touch because I might
> accidentally remove something if I type anything wrong. Could somebody
> let me a better way to create an empt
'touch' will not make the file size empty if the file is not empty. I
don't not want to use 'rm -f' first then touch because I might
accidentally remove something if I type anything wrong. Could somebody
let me a better way to create an empty file?
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 25/01/10 11:51, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>
>>> Subject: [PATCH] syntax-check: detect incorrect boolean macro values in
>>> config.h
>>>
>>> * modules/maintainer-makefile (configure.ac): Parameterize the location
>>> of config.h. The logic is from Eri
On 25/01/10 11:51, Jim Meyering wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
Subject: [PATCH] syntax-check: detect incorrect boolean macro values in config.h
* modules/maintainer-makefile (configure.ac): Parameterize the location
of config.h. The logic is from Eric Blake and the location indicated
by Jim Meye
Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 22/01/10 17:09, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Eric Blake wrote:
>>> According to Jim Meyering on 1/22/2010 6:17 AM:
However, it'd sure be nice to use something more generic than
lib/config.h. IMHO, autoconf should make configure AC_SUBST its
currently-internal-on
On 22/01/10 17:09, Jim Meyering wrote:
Eric Blake wrote:
According to Jim Meyering on 1/22/2010 6:17 AM:
However, it'd sure be nice to use something more generic than
lib/config.h. IMHO, autoconf should make configure AC_SUBST its
currently-internal-only CONFIG_HEADERS variable. While we wait
Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Saturday 23 of January 2010 02:43:39 Kamil Dudka wrote:
>> On Saturday 23 of January 2010 00:54:44 Kamil Dudka wrote:
>> > # ls -l /dev/tty?
>> > crw--w. 1 root root 4, 0 2010-01-22 18:48 /dev/tty0
>> > crw--w. 1 root root 4, 1 2010-01-22 18:48 /dev/tty1
>> > crw--w-
