[X4U] Re: OS X on Rev. D iMac - moving user folders

Eugene list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net
Sat Aug 27 13:56:05 PDT 2005


On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 11:46:58AM CDT, Craig A. Finseth <fin at finseth.com> wrote:
: 
:    6. Tried command: cp -pr /Users/caitlyn
:    7. came up with following lines:
:    usage: cp [-R [-H | -L -P]] [-f | -I | -n] [-pv] src target
: 	  cp [-R [-H | -L -P]] [-f | -I | -n] [-pv] src1 ... srcN directory

The command as typed above is incomplete.  The destination needs to be
specified, i.e. where do you want your copies to go.  For example, the
following makes a copy of a home directory in the /tmp directory:

	cp -pr /Users/caitlyn /tmp


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Eugene
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