[Wolves] Teminal & Mysql questions

[Peter Cannon]

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 11:55, Simon Morris wrote:

> The problem you have here is of bash variable expansion.
>
> When you say * you mean "all files in this directory". Unfortunately *
> doesn't include "dot files" or any directory or file beginning with a .
>
> I would copy the containing directory rather than use the * wildcard
>
> cp -r ./covide /var/covide_files/

See every time I try and be a sysadmin I end up being a crappy 'User' 
instead. :(

I think I'll run upstairs and do it graphically, I need the folder to just say 
covide  rather than covide-6.1 bloody Dutchmen (Covide is Dutch by the way)

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Peter Cannon
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