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Old 06-25-2009
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help with recursive copy command

Hi Guys,

I am experiencing a problem right now while copying a directory as well as its subdirectories to my target directory. I know this is a very simple UNIX command using cp -R source directory target directory. but unfortunatley while doing this an error comes up on the command line saying that it cannot access the source directory...

if have checked the permissions in both source and target directories using ls -lrt and it shows that both directories have drwxrwxrwx permissions...what can i do to resolve this problem?

Your inputs will be most appreciated Thanks!