04-30-2010
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Originally Posted by
dropkick888
I am trying to script simply data transfer. I would like to have the user input the source "SRC" (/Volumes/DriveName/Users/johnq123) and then name the directory that the copied information will go to, "DST" . put I can't get it to work -
"*.*" is a DOS thing, and makes little to no sense in UNIX. Try just "*". It'd also help if you told us what happened, we can't tell from here.
You might also want to try just copying the directory instead of directory/*, since the way you're doing it might mash all the files together in one giant undifferentiated directory and runs the risk of having too many arguments.
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