On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:55:21 +0100
Charles Forsyth <fors...@terzarima.net> wrote:
> >Before I say anythign daft, what's '+'? It does not appear to be special on
> >my system.
>
> it's interpreted by mkfs in its proto file to mean all the substructure of a
> directory.
> see mkfs(8).
>
Thanks. I looked over the man page last night & somehow missed the "Mkfs copies
only those files that are out of date" part. Ah... that part would be more
relevant to cej than me.
I'm primarily concerned with moving dirs and I already know what tar does. Mkfs
seemed very confusing at first, it's confusingly-named for one thing (it does
not make filesystems & wtf does mkext stand for), and IMHO default destinations
belong in a script, not a compiled binary. Also I'm absurdly pleased with how
terse dcp is. Apart from the option check there are 4 lines of code. :)
I have half a mind to write a new script using mkfs to get the functionality
cej would like, but:
file /bin/mkfs
/bin/mkfs: cannot open: '/bin/mkfs' file does not exist
Dude, like, huh?
--
Ethan Grammatikidis
Those who are slower at parsing information must
necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
