03-31-2011
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Originally Posted by
Straitsfan
Sorry again. I typed
cp vendors /
Does your system even let you write to the root of your hard drive? I'm hoping you meant cp vendors /some/directory/or/other
If you can't write to the root of your hard drive, that'd also explain why mv didn't work -- though it should have printed a different error message.
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I read about the -r command after I posted -- but can you tell me more about it?
it means "check inside and copy directories instead of complaining they're directories".
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I'm not quite sure what it means. I'm assuming I have to use a new name for the target?
If you give it a destination folder that doesn't exist yet (i.e. /directories/that/already/exist/newdir), it will create it. If you give it a destination directory that does exist, it will copy the contents into it.
This is only with -r, though. cp will
never create directories unless you give it -r, so without -r it always expects the name of a dir that already exists.
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ppi::token::quotelike5.18
PPI::Token::QuoteLike(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation PPI::Token::QuoteLike(3)
NAME
PPI::Token::QuoteLike - Quote-like operator abstract base class
INHERITANCE
PPI::Token::QuoteLike
isa PPI::Token
isa PPI::Element
DESCRIPTION
The "PPI::Token::QuoteLike" class is never instantiated, and simply provides a common abstract base class for the five quote-like operator
classes. In PPI, a "quote-like" is the set of quote-like things that exclude the string quotes and regular expressions.
The subclasses of "PPI::Token::QuoteLike" are:
qw{} - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Words
`` - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Backtick
qx{} - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Command
qr// - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Regexp
<FOO> - PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Readline
The names are hopefully obvious enough not to have to explain what each class is. See their pages for more details.
You may note that the backtick and command quote-like are treated separately, even though they do the same thing. This is intentional, as
the inherit from and are processed by two different parts of the PPI's quote engine.
SUPPORT
See the support section in the main module.
AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
perl v5.18.2 2011-02-25 PPI::Token::QuoteLike(3)