[rescue] Doh!

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Oct 9 03:30:48 CDT 2002


On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 04:27 AM, Kenneth Dunn wrote:
> I feel like such a Lindows user. After getting all the networking
> issues sorted out I forgot to check for files starting with a period
> and transfer them to the FreeBSD box.
>
> 	cp -R /mnt/someserver/* .
>
> Like a button clicking Red Hat using tool I just forgot. Install
> is going real good now.

   You really want to use a tar pipeline for stuff like that 
anyway...much safer than cp.

# cd <src>
# tar -cf - . | (cd /<dest>; tar -xvBpf -)

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire          "PC users only know two 'solutions'...
St. Petersburg, FL       reboot and upgrade."    -Jonathan Patschke



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