On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:17 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@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!

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Keith Smith

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