The issue is that you didn’t put a slash between your tilde (home directory) and documents and the folder ~documents doesn’t exist, try this command:
cp * ~/documents/VoiceDreamWriter (you can leave out that final slash as well) > On Apr 21, 2015, at 10:44 AM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In a terminal session, I have navigated to the voice dream writer folder of > iCloud > and I now want the ability to copy that folder’s contents to my main > documents folder. Here is the command I have been attempting in terminal, > which is returning a usage error. > > CP *.* ~documents/VoiceDreamWriter/ > > I used to be a wiz with DzOS, and I know UNIX isn’t all that dissimilar, but > I can’t figure out my mistake. > Can anyone tell me the syntax for copying the contents of a folder to another > folder? > BTW: the reason I’m doing this in terminal > and not in finder is because the contents of the ~library/mobile > documents/VDW/documents folder aren’t visible to finder, but they are in > terminal. > > Any help appreciated. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
