[support] drupal sire is not working after migration

[Earnie Boyd]

Jamie,

I understand this.  However, this isn't what Richard said.

The source/* causes the shell to glob the "non hidden" files and pass
a list of files to copy.
The source/. causes the shell to pass the "specified" directory and is
equivalent to source/ without specifying the period.
The -r means recursive so that any directories encountered in the list
of directories are read and also copied.
  So if the list globbed by source/* contains a directory and that
directory contains "hidden" files those "hidden" files will also be
copied.
If you want to retain the dates, permissions, owner and group you also
need to use -p in the copy command or use -a (a gnu feature) to mean
both -r and -p.

Earnie

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Jamie Holly
<hovercrafter at earthlink.net> wrote:
> It depends on how the command is invoked:
>
> cp -r source/* destination/
>
> That won't copy hidden files and directories.
>
> cp -r source/. destination/
>
> That will get the hidden files and directories.
>
> Jamie Holly
> http://www.intoxination.net
> http://www.hollyit.net
>
> On 12/24/2012 11:25 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Richard Damon wrote:
>> >
>> > Note that cp does not copy "hidden" files (files that begin with .) by
>> > default.
>> > Since you specified /var/www/drupal/ (with the trailing /) it only selected
>> > the "normal" files in that directory. I think if you had specified the
>> > source as /var/www/drupal (with without the slash) then you get the hidden
>> > files.
>>
>> I've never heard this before and really do not believe you based on
>> experience.  Can you please point us to the documentation that states
>> that?
>>
>
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