Stephen Powell schreef:
> Hi, all!
>
> In one of my web pages, as part of a larger overall procedure, I give
> instructions for copying an entire partition. The basic procedure involves
> mounting one partition on /media and the other on /mnt. Then the files
> are copied between partitions by means of
>
> cp -a /media/* /mnt
>
> This seems to work OK except if there are "dot files" (files with names
> beginning with a period) in the top directory of the source partition.
> To generalize the procedure to handle this case, I modified it as follows:
>
> GLOBIGNORE=.:..
> cp -a /media/* /mnt
> unset GLOBIGNORE
>
> This works fine for bash. Unfortunately, when using the Debian Installer in
> a rescue-type situation, the shell is ash, not bash, and GLOBIGNORE has no
> special meaning to ash. When using ash, so far the best I have come up with
> is
>
> cp -a /media/* /mnt
> for i in /media/.*;do if [ $i != /media/. -a $i != /media/.. ];then cp -a
> $i /mnt;fi;done
>
> Of course, special handling is necessary to avoid processing "." (the current
> directory) and ".." (the parent directory). Does anyone know a better way?
>
rsync -a /media/ /mnt/
OR
find /media -exec cp -a {} /mnt \;Sjoerd
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