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cp /from /to change in 3.2?
Posted: 15 Jul 2016, 17:55
by Ed_P
Porteus 3.2 rc4 Cinnamon
I'm trying to make a copy of my /home/guest files. In 3.0 I use:
which results in just the files in the /home/guest/ directory being copied.
In 3.2 when I use a similar command I get everything in /home/guest/ including all subdirectories and all hidden subdirectories!! I've tried home/guest/ and /home/guest/*.* with the same inclusive results. I've done a cp --help and reviewed the options but don't see anything that omits subdirectories.
I'm not sure this is a 3.2 bug or simply my lack of knowledge.
Any ideas?
Re: cp /from /to change in 3.2?
Posted: 15 Jul 2016, 18:18
by Bogomips
Have not met this problem, but for what it;s worth there are two options
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zip $GUEST/guest,zip /home/guest/*
cd $GUEST; unzip guest.zip
- Or Bash
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for f in /home/guest/*; do [[ -f $f ]] && cp -p $f $GUEST; done
Preserving timestamp.
Re: cp /from /to change in 3.2?
Posted: 15 Jul 2016, 19:43
by Ed_P
Thanks Bogomips. I tried the 2nd option and still got all the subdirectories.
Re: cp /from /to change in 3.2?
Posted: 15 Jul 2016, 20:00
by Bogomips
- rc4 Cinnamon
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guest@porteus:~$ uname -r; uname -m
4.6.3-porteus
x86_64
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guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /tmp/gst/
total 0
guest@porteus:~$ for f in /var/log/*; do [[ -f $f ]] && sudo cp -p $f /tmp/gst/; done
guest@porteus:~$ ls -l /tmp/gst/
total 232
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16571 Jul 15 18:15 Xorg.0.log
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 1 03:29 btmp
-rw-r----- 1 root root 259 Jul 15 19:30 cron
-rw-r----- 1 root root 17091 Jul 15 18:15 debug
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50406 Jul 15 17:35 dmesg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 2 2014 faillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 8 2000 lastlog
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 19:20 maillog
-rw-r----- 1 root root 74729 Jul 15 21:51 messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1124 Jul 15 18:15 pm-powersave.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6086 Jul 15 18:15 pm-suspend.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1266 Jul 15 17:34 porteus-livedbg
-rw-r----- 1 root root 8376 Jul 15 21:56 secure
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61 Jul 15 17:35 slim.log
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jun 29 19:20 spooler
-rw-r----- 1 root root 10636 Jul 15 18:15 syslog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7296 Jul 15 17:35 wtmp
Re: cp /from /to change in 3.2?
Posted: 15 Jul 2016, 20:24
by Ed_P
Ok, found part of the problem. I'm an idiot.
I wasn't deleting the /to directory between tests.
I'm not done with my experiment so I may post more as this progresses.
Thank you for your patience
Bogomips.
