On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 13:20 +0530, Parameshwara Bhat wrote: > Hello List, > > I want to copy /usr to a new partition and then attach that at /usr. I > issued a command > > cp -options(recursive included) /usr /mnt/"mountpoint > > This resulted in the creation of a new "usr" directory under > /mnt/"mountpoint"/usr and contents of /usr went into sub-directories. What > I want is to copy all the subdirectories and files directly under /usr to > go at /mnt/"mountpoint" for obvious reasons. How do I do that? "Man cp" > did not give me any clue. > > Also, is there a command which compares each file under two directory > trees for difference.(I want to verify after the above operation) How about: # cp -a /usr/* /mnt/"mountpoint"/ This won't get any files whose names starting with "." directly under /usr, but you probably don't have any of those anyway: $ ls -al /usr Paul.
