[Scottish] cp command question / supermount

[Magnus Lawrie]

Andy McKay wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 13:57 +0100, magnus lawrie wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>I want to copy files from /cdrom (root) to /home (user).
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>>I am just getting messed up with it. Can anyone tell me how to copy my files
>>and change owner, not just locked and empty folders (why is it doing that?)
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>well why dont you do
>sudo cp -r /cdrom/* /home/
>chown -R user /home/*
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>or am i missing something here?
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I am doing:
sudo cp -r /cdrom/paisley\ dump/Final%20DBMS.doc /home/mdl/fromBackUp/

and get:
cp: `/cdrom/paisley dump/Final%20DBMS.doc' has unknown file type

>>Any advice on using supermount with ubuntu. I want to automount /cdrom.
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>>And btw has anyone been following the newbie discussion on edlug?
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>Andy Mckay
>AKA Lonewolff
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