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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to move a directory from thumb drive to mac? Post 302508981 by Scott on Tuesday 29th of March 2011 01:49:43 PM
Old 03-29-2011
Not specific to OS X when copying a directory, you should do it recursively, if using cp:

Code:
cp -r ....

I suppose you are using cp and not mv, since mv has no such error:
Code:
$ strings $(which mv) | grep "is a directory" 
(no output)

$ strings $(which cp) | grep "is a directory" 
%s is a directory (not copied).

(that, and the fact, the error goes something like:
Code:
cp: (directory name) is a directory (not copied).

Last edited by Scott; 03-29-2011 at 03:07 PM..
 

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bt-serial

bt-serial(1)							    bluez-tools 						      bt-serial(1)

NAME

       bt-serial - a bluetooth serial manager

SYNOPSIS

       bt-serial [OPTION...]

       Help Options:
	 -h, --help

       Application Options:
	 -a, --adapter=<name|mac>
	 -c, --connect <name|mac> <pattern>
	 -d, --disconnect <name|mac> <tty_device>

DESCRIPTION

       This utility is used to manage serial service connections.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	   Show help

       -a, --adapter <name|mac>
	   Specify adapter to use by his Name or MAC address
	   (if this option does not defined - default adapter used)

       -c, --connect <name|mac> <pattern>
	   Connects to a specific RFCOMM based service on a
	   remote device and then creates a RFCOMM TTY
	   device for it; `pattern` is a profile short name (spp, dun),
	   RFCOMM channel (1-30)

       -d, --disconnect <name|mac> <tty_device>
	   Disconnect a RFCOMM TTY device that has been created

AUTHOR

       Alexander Orlenko <zxteam@gmail.com>.

SEE ALSO

       bt-adapter(1) bt-agent(1) bt-audio(1) bt-device(1) bt-input(1) bt-monitor(1) bt-network(1)

								    2010-08-12							      bt-serial(1)
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