-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Glenn English <g...@slsware.com> writes:
> I always just say 'cp -a .* <destination dir>' in addition to what you > already did to copy (recursively) everything beginning with a period. If > there are switches to do this, I've missed them in my reading of the man page. Hope you will be combled when you will see my previous message. > (Where 'a' here means 'archive mode', not 'all' as it does with ls > :-) Nice to specify it. :-) One always takes his desires for reality. > > It might also help if you think of mounting as "on" rather than > "in". Mount doesn't merge 2 directories / filesystems; it 'covers' > (replaces) the contents of the destination with the contents of what > is mounted. Nice. I will remember, then, thanks to you. Waiting for an answer concerning my last message (and obviously-related subjects), - -- 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/> iEYEARECAAYFAks1P8kACgkQM0LLzLt8MhzYMgCfZB3zel3CW02OtAY7NYrxUc1i 5GEAnjBg62GS3+sHbdvnLqbZRpHAneCo =Q3W5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
