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Old 12-27-2003, 07:09 PM   #1
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ommiting directory.

I want to move a directory to a directory which I made.
So commanded cp win32codecs /usr/local/lib/codecs/
But resulted in ommiting directory.why?
 
Old 12-27-2003, 07:12 PM   #2
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man cp
`cp -r source_dir dest_dir`
 
Old 12-27-2003, 07:22 PM   #3
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....... or even

cp -Rpdf
 
  


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