Linux CP command

[Michael March]

I personally use 'tar' in place of 'cp' all the time:

tar cf - * | ( cd /target; tar xfp -)

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:17 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> 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
>
>
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