Because we don't have enough solutions yet ;-) <br><br>cd /mnt/mus/multimedia; for i in *; do cp -a $i /mnt/multimedia; done<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David J. Andruczyk</b>
<<a href="mailto:djandruczyk@yahoo.com">djandruczyk@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">use rsync. rsync -av /source /destination
<br>man rsync for details, or rsync --help<br><br>rsync is nice becasue you can quit partway through and recontinue<br>unlike cp which starts over again.<br><br><br>--- Darin Perusich <<a href="mailto:Darin.Perusich@cognigencorp.com">
Darin.Perusich@cognigencorp.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> try do a tar copy.<br>><br>> cd /mnt/mus/multimedia/<br>> tar -cf - . |(cd /mnt/new/multimedia && tar -xf - )<br>><br>> Robert F. Stockdale IV wrote:
<br>><br>> ><br>> > cp /mnt/mus/multimedia/* /mnt/mus/<br>> > -bash: /usr/bin/cp: Argument list too long<br>> ><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> Darin Perusich<br>> Unix Systems Administrator
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