On Sunday 21 October 2007 20:50, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > If one executes the following command > > cp -a * /some/directory > > and in the middle one uses Control*C to interrupt it, is there danger > of getting some incomplete files in the destination directory? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul Personally I havn't found any problem with that. I'm on dialup, and regularly interrupt an apt-get dist-upgrade using ctrl +c. I do this if I want to download e-mail, or view a couple of webpages, as apt-get tends to hog the bandwidth. I then re-run apt-get dist-upgrade, and it continues from where it left off. I'm amazed how it does this, but it doesn't lose one bit. I'm not sure about interrupting a cp command though. I'll have to try that with a big file, and see how it goes. Nigel.
