Desperate situation

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 09 February 2006 21:26, V P wrote:
> On 2/10/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > cp /mnt/hde7/anne/Gnucash/ /mnt/sde     gets
> > cp: omitting directory /mnt/hde7/anne/Gnucash/
>
> It should be
> # cp -r <source directory> <destination>
>
> r for recursively copy directories..
>
Thanks for the reply.  After I discovered that I could copy once I had created 
the directory I did wonder if it needed -r or -R,

Anne