On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:16:50PM +0100, James Preece wrote: > Basically, I've got a folder containing various files for a website > (for simplicity lets say it's this): > > /mydirectory/index.html /mydirectory/images/image.gif > > I want to make a backup so in the /mydirectory/ folder I do: > > cp -r ./ backup > > I wanted his to result in: > > /mydirectory/index.html /mydirectory/images/image.gif > /mydirectory/backup/index.html /mydirectory/backup/images/image.gif > > Does that make sense? The error I get is: > > cp: cannot copy a directory, `./', into itself, `backup' > > Is there a way to have cp ignore the newly created directory? > Something like:
Unfortuntly, Debian relies on GNU and GNU has changed the licence on the docs to be incompatible with Debian. Notice that the stub of a man pages directs you to info cp, however info cp gives you cpio instead. OOPS. try: $ mkdir backup $ cp -r i* backup/ I don't see anything like --ignore in the man page. Personally, for stuff like that I use mc. If I'm writing a script, I'm using Python anyway. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
