Help with cp syntax

[Matt Brodeur]

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On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 05:23:43PM -0400, Ted Roche wrote:

> cp -Rv /home/troche/Present/1999/*.* /var/www/html/Present/1999/ 
>
> The files in the 1999 folder are copying fine, but the files in
> subdirectories of the source 1999 folder, subdirectories that don't
> exist in the target, are being ignored. Isn't that what the "-R" as
> in recursive is supposed to do?

   Change that "*.*" to just "*".  Right now you're telling cp to only
copy files/directories that contain at least one dot.  My guess is
that you directory names don't in fact have dots in them.

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Matt Brodeur                                                            RHCE
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