10-06-2008
ok i can understand your problem.the only you learn unix is by trying it yourself.at the beginning your friend is "man" command so you want to copy then type man cp study it try out examples and don't miss to see the man pages of related info bar at the end of each man page.
i this to copy complete directory structure you can use "cp" or "cpio" command study man pages try it
if you can't get back here
regrads,
vidyadhar
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IPCMK(1) User Commands IPCMK(1)
NAME
ipcmk - make various IPC resources
SYNOPSIS
ipcmk [options]
DESCRIPTION
ipcmk allows you to create shared memory segments, message queues, and semaphore arrays.
OPTIONS
Resources can be specified with these options:
-M, --shmem size
Create a shared memory segment of size bytes. The size argument may be followed by the multiplicative suffixes KiB (=1024), MiB
(=1024*1024), and so on for GiB, etc. (the "iB" is optional, e.g., "K" has the same meaning as "KiB") or the suffixes KB (=1000), MB
(=1000*1000), and so on for GB, etc.
-Q, --queue
Create a message queue.
-S, --semaphore number
Create a semaphore array with number of elements.
Other options are:
-p, --mode mode
Access permissions for the resource. Default is 0644.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
SEE ALSO
ipcrm(1), ipcs(1)
AUTHOR
Hayden A. James <hayden.james@gmail.com>
AVAILABILITY
The ipcmk command is part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils
/util-linux/>.
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