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Mac cp prob

b3t4 · 2003-02-12 09:58:10

Running OSX... Rite folks heres the prob using cp -R -p blah toBlah in terminal (well that was pretty obvious i know) some of the files appear to loose there extensions :confused: it can handle some of the files ie html ones but appears to f3ck the rest of them up. the folders which it copies over appear to be fine but…

12-02-2003 9:58am

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b3t4

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Running OSX...

Rite folks heres the prob

using cp -R -p blah toBlah in terminal (well that was pretty obvious i know)

some of the files appear to loose there extensions
it can handle some of the files ie html ones but appears to
f3ck the rest of them up.
the folders which it copies over appear to be fine but when ya
actually delve deeper into them their not

????
Thanks for reading,
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#2 12-02-2003 5:35pm

Hecate

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are you using the ** wildcard?

cp -R -p ** /some_place should work fine.

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#3 13-02-2003 9:21am

b3t4

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Thanks for your reply Hecate.

Found the command ditto -rsrcFork which appears to be what i need.
Will try yours as well.

Rgrds,
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