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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.