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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions help on this command, creating .. Post 302407743 by vbe on Friday 26th of March 2010 09:34:58 AM
Old 03-26-2010
The best/hard way to learn is to test and see what is going on...
1) create a dir, add a few things, create a subdir, do the same..., in dir create a symbolic link to subdir calling it mylinkdir.
2) cp how you can all what you just did in mybckdir

3) analyse the result:
do I have all?
And the subdir?
what about the perms and ownership
what about the time stamps of copied stuff?
what can you say about the link?

I see you are still trying to code without a beginning of algorithm/procedure... so dont expect much help from you peers
 

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