Re: A-posteriori use of another HDD for the /home/username
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Bill Merriam <lists@billmerriam.com> writes:
> Your preferences may be in "hidden" directories, directories whose name
> starts with a period. ls -a will show them. Did the method you used to
> copy your home directory contents copy everything? cp *.* will not copy
> everything, in fact it misses a great deal. Appropriate switches must
> be used with cp to copy everything.
You were right. I just made a diff, and folders beginning with a dot
were not copied. I was simply using
$ cp --recursive --update *.* [...] [...]
What would be these appropriate switches to achieve this?
Thanks.
/Post scriptum/: sorry for the delay between my answers but it seems
to be due to the fact that this group is moderated.
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Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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