On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:26:43 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:18:38 Stephen Powell wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Use this instead:
> cp -a /media/. /mnt
> OR
> cp -a /media/{.[!.],}* /mnt
Your second method doesn't work in ash because ash does not support
brace expansion. If I issue
echo /media/{.[!.],}*
in ash, I get
/media/{.[!.],}*
as output. As for the first method, it seems to work. Simple and elegant!
As an aside, I tried
cp -a /media /mnt
and that didn't work properly. I get an extra directory level (media)
thrown in. I also tried
cp -a /media/ /mnt
and that gave the same results as above. But
cp -a /media/. /mnt
works correctly. Thank you!
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