[Ti] iPod copy on Big Al

[Loren Schooley]

On 5/19/03 4:56 AM, "Jesse Brown" <jesse.brown at mac.com> wrote:

> On 5/18/03 18:21, "Loren Schooley" <loren at flash.net> wrote:
> 
>> Ditto? You can do individual playlist too ya know.
>> 
>> Try 
>> 
>> ll -R /Volumes/iPod/iPod_Control/Music | more
>> 
>> Find your song, see what dir it's in and just cp it. This is basic DOS. It's
>> DOS, how much is to figure out?
> 
> 
> It's "ditto" to copy the contents of directories to another directory. "cp"
> works but you have to use a switch and be careful since it will copy the
> directory itself rather than contents:
 
>>    ditto doesn't copy directories into directories in the same way as cp(1).
>>    In particular,
>>          ditto foo bar
>>    will copy the contents of foo into bar, whereas
>>          cp -r foo bar
>>    copies foo itself into bar. Though this is not a bug, some may consider
>>    this bug-like behavior.
> 
> Secondly, "cp" doesn't use the pipe or the "more" function. This is Unix not
> DOS. DOS works on that other OS remember?

If you look closer I wrote "ll" not "cp".
I figured that if someone wanted to copy something they might want to see
what they are going to copy, but that's just me.