[Coco] need help on how to copy a directory

[Bill Pierce]

Richard, "copy" does not compy directories, only files. You eith must copy each file individually or use one of the copy utilies like dsave. 
 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hawk <rhawk1 at centurylink.net>
To: Coco <Coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sat, Feb 6, 2016 2:46 am
Subject: [Coco] need help on how to copy a directory

I have the newspaper in vcc drive 0I am trying to copy it to my /dd/apps folderAt the shell I tried all the copy commands, but I am trying to copy thewhole disk one directory and all of its sub directory's to a directory Imade on /dd/apps/newspaperI tried copy -w /d0/newspaper /dd/apps/newspaperI tried copy -w *.* /dd/apps/newspaperI could create all the directory I guess and copy them all over to theircorrect directory's but I thought there was an easier wayThanks again and yes I been reading the manuals on line\-- Coco mailing listCoco at maltedmedia.comhttps://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco