On Wednesday 17 February 2010 13:40:20 Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:26:43 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > 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.Sorry, I sometimes forget that brace expansion isn't part of the standard Shell Command Language. You could write them out separately: cp -a /media/.[!.]* /media/* /mnt BUT That could still fail depending on how your shell treats patterns that do not match any existing pathnames (standard behavior is to leave the pattern string, but both bash and zsh have options of different behavior) and how your cp utility handles source_file arguments that do not exist. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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