[mac4theblind] Re: cp directories in terminal[
- From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:14:28 -0500
did youexecute a cd first and or ls? it is always good to be in the source and
write to the target I think.
On Feb 17, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Justin Harford wrote:
That's true, but I had already gone to the directory. I also like to use the
tilde slash for the home directory.
I guess I just wanted to copy a bunch of directories quickly without fiddling
with finder. I actually ended up using finder anyway, but just curious.
Justin Harford
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On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:53 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I think the char on the right should have been ] (right bracket), but then
> I'm not familiar with using external volumes.
> also, the csource path should be:
> /users/yourname/music/itunes/ and from there it coul be either itunes music
> or itunes media depending on the folder name and then, once in there it is
> music and then the artist should be in a folder but why not just do this from
> the finder?
>
> On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:13 AM, Justin Harford wrote:
>
> An interesting question for you fans of the terminal.
>
> I had some new albums on my macbook and I wanted to copy them over to the
> music folder on my external hd, sort of my master storage for my music from
> which I could copy to other computers.
>
> So for example I wanted to copy the artist Vanessa from my computer to my hd.
> I ran the command from my iTunes Music folder
>
> cp -r Vanessa [Volumes[hd[Music
>
> and instead of copying the whole folder, it just takes the contents and puts
> them in the hd. I tried running the command with capital R instead of
> lowercase r to no avail. Isn't this kind of peculiar behavior? I am certain
> that in ubuntu gnome-terminal it should copy the entire directory with all
> sub directories and contents.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Justin
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