-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Merriam <li...@billmerriam.com> writes:
> Your preferences may be in "hidden" directories, directories whose name > starts with a period. ls -a will show them. Did the method you used to > copy your home directory contents copy everything? cp *.* will not copy > everything, in fact it misses a great deal. Appropriate switches must > be used with cp to copy everything. You were right. I just made a diff, and folders beginning with a dot were not copied. I was simply using $ cp --recursive --update *.* [...] [...] What would be these appropriate switches to achieve this? Thanks. /Post scriptum/: sorry for the delay between my answers but it seems to be due to the fact that this group is moderated. - -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAks1MWYACgkQM0LLzLt8MhygIACfZs8Sv3aPCRaSVPDNoPZ+Vk7y QLsAoKYZgTqIsRhhoj77DFvQD3kdz0AM =OdX7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
