[wellylug] Exact meaning of "omitting directory"

[Tim McKenzie]

On Saturday 01 August 2009 14:56:25 John Durham wrote:
> While copying files to my web server I received a message
> saying "omitting directory". Maybe I got the command wrong, but
> the implication here could be other than I expected. Before
> proceeding, would you care to comment please?

If you're using cp at the command line, you need -R, -r, or
--recursive to copy a directory.

Tim
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