From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.inoc.net ([64.246.131.30]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16jlE1-0006WD-00 for ; Sat, 09 Mar 2002 13:05:45 -0500 Received: from hudson.valstar.net (cust39.usr1-gtown.valstar.net [64.246.150.168]) by mx1.inoc.net (Vircom SMTPRS 5.2.204) with ESMTP id for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 13:05:47 -0500 Received: from localhost (hallenbeck@localhost) by hudson.valstar.net (8.11.4/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g29I5iw01833 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 13:05:45 -0500 Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 13:05:44 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Hallenbeck To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: trplayer and realplayer In-Reply-To: <001701c1c78a$cfc39440$01213e18@OEMCOMPUTER> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Igor - That would have worked fine if your source was not on a CD. The thing is, the MV command wants to erase the source after putting it somewhere else, and your CD is not erasable. You might want to use "cp" instead with a flag to make it recursive. Probably the flag would be -r but I would check first. Chuck On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi Chuck. How do you mv it so that the directory doesn't get omitted? As an example, I was trying to move an entire directory tree from Cd to hard disk (/usr/src). My syntax was something like this: mv /mnt/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/source /usr/src. This should work under Dos, but doesn't seem to work under Linux. Just to make sure, I added a *.* before the /usr/src. In both cases, I get a message like: mv: directory has been omitted. And it doesn't move anything. In this example, I'm not saying that I am trying to do this, although I did try it before. Basically, what would be the syntax to move a directory tree? Let's say I created a tempdir for a tar archive and untarred it. And it created a dir in /temp, therefore the tree would be /temp/package. Let's say I want to move /package to /usr/local. Also, package has subdirs that I want to have moved as well. What would be the syntax to move package to /usr/local and all subdirs? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Charles Hallenbeck > To: > Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 9:47 AM > Subject: Re: trplayer and realplayer > > > > Hi Igor - > > > > I have had that problem too. On my Slackware system the "less" > > command is installed in such a way that it automatically shows > > the files contained in a tar archive. The first file listed will > > be a directory if the archive will be one that creates its own > > directory. > > > > If your "less" will not do that, you can always create a > > temporary directory and untar the thing in there. If it does > > create its own directory under your temporary one, you can just > > "mv" the thing to where you want it. > > > > HTH - Chuck > > > > > > > > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > > The Moon is Waning Crescent (17% of Full) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Crescent (16% of Full)