Linux CP command

[Shawn Badger]

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 <brian at 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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