On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:17:01PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,28.Dec.09, 06:27:32, Glenn English wrote: > > > I still don't understand how 'source/.' would work, though. > > I discovered that by chance, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't > work.
Yah ... it will create destination/source/* If you missed my post, ... here is the better way. $ cd /path/to/source ; cp -a ./ destination/ This does trick since adding ./ after destination/ is still destination/ :-) Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org