Re: cp -a
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > Weird, I did this not two days ago, cp -avRx /* . and it died on some
> > file, I thought it was /dev or a fifo?
>
> Say "." is /tmp. When you get to copying /tmp, you will get into
> recursion with /tmp/tmp being everything that you have copied into /tmp
> including the directory /tmp/tmp which will become /tmp/tmp/tmp... I
> usually make sure to get every directory but the one I'm copying into. Or
> using a rescue disk to I can have /mnt1 and /mnt2. Or using a tar that
> won't traverse mount points, etc...
Actually it was /mnt/Linux and I was using the -x option to only traverse
one disk :>
My memory must be going or something :>
Jason
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