Re: Copy all except one

[Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 04:22:04PM +1000, Russell wrote:
> When i do: cp /bin /mnt   i get:
>   cp: omitting directory '/bin'
> 
> Why?
> 
> I'm in as root, and can do: cp /bin/* /mnt/bin

cp -a /bin /mnt

SYNOPSIS
       cp [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST
       cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
       cp [OPTION]... --target-directory=DIRECTORY SOURCE...

DESCRIPTION
       Copy SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY.

Source if file(s)
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