On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Josef Lowder wrote:
> On my old system, using this: cp -p /mnt/cdrom/* dirname
> would copy all the files from a cdrom to the named directory (or folder)
> but on my new system this doesn't seem to work.
What doesn't work? What happens?
> I've tried various combinations, including
> cp -p /mnt/cdrom dirname
> cp -p -r /mnt/cdrom dirname
> cp -pr /mnt/cdrom dirname
And what happened? These bottom two should work and the wildcard one
above. You may want to show us what went wrong.
> I want to copy all the files and directories and their contents
> from the backup CD I burned to the named directory on the
> new system, preserving the file creation date, owner, and
> permissions.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
Jeremy C. Reed
technical support & remote administration
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
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