[support] drupal sire is not working after migration

[Jamie Holly]

Yeah, I was just talking about copying a single directory. If you want 
to get hidden files in that directory (non-recursively) then you need to 
do a cp * and a cp ./.*

And -a is the way to go generally. A lot of people actually don't know 
about that and resort to the standard -r and have to deal with 
ownership/perm problems or they just resort to good ole' rsync.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net

On 12/31/2012 12:39 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 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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