Thanks Earnie -- i will try that one next time I copy my production site into the sandbox!
Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie@users.sourceforge.net June 22, 2011 7:32 AM
If it would allow that it would cause an infinite recursion. To resolve you need to do:
cp -a public_html/* public_html/sandbox/
This will cause the contents of public_html to be copied and not public_html itself. The added / on the end of sandbox ensures that you are copying to a directory otherwise you run the risk of copying the contents to a file which is pointless.
adept techlists - kazar mailto:techlists@ade.pt June 22, 2011 6:09 AM
I just tried this suggestion using:
cp -a public_html/ public_html/sandbox cp: cannot copy a directory, `public_html/', into itself, `public_html/sandbox/public_html'
(since sandbox is a subdomain i use for testing it is actually within the public_html folder)
according to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cp&apropos=0&sektion=0&...:
also tried adding the -R switch:
cp -Ra public_html/ public_html/sandbox/ cp: cannot copy a directory, `public_html/', into itself, `public_html/sandbox/public_html'
what am I doing wrong?
thanks
kazar
Matthias Fechner mailto:idefix@fechner.net June 14, 2011 7:01 AM
Hi,
why not use: cp -a <old-dir> <new-dir>
See here for manual page: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cp&apropos=0&sektion=0&...
Bye Matthias