From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 13 12:13:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D9E114E36 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 12:13:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11xagr-00041w-00; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:59:21 +0000 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:59:22 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Majid Almassari Cc: Peter Kok , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: command abt 'ftp' and 'cp' Message-ID: <19991213185922.A551@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <38551FE5.C51CB20@stlinux.ouhk.edu.hk> <00c401bf4548$765f6b70$8e1d91d8@ibroadcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <00c401bf4548$765f6b70$8e1d91d8@ibroadcast.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Majid Almassari wrote: > 2)If you are copying a whloe directory from one location to another on the > same host then use the mv command. Peter wants to *copy* not *move* a directory. The correct answer has already been given, cp -R (I tend to use cp -Rp, just a habit I guess). -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message