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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:55:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd7767fe8b090d17d485c03d639970b1@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090720023232.712b6a8a.eekee57@fastmail.fm>

>Before I say anythign daft, what's '+'? It does not appear to be special on my system.

it's interpreted by mkfs in its proto file to mean all the substructure of a directory.
see mkfs(8).



  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-20  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-19 16:24 Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-19 18:05 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-19 18:16   ` Richard Miller
2009-07-19 18:34     ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-07-20  1:32   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-20  9:55     ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2009-07-20 11:36       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-20 11:50         ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-20 13:25           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-20 14:00             ` Steve Simon
2009-07-20 15:02               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-20 15:13                 ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-20 15:19                 ` Dan Cross
2009-07-20 18:30                   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-20 22:25                     ` Jason Catena
2009-07-20 22:41                       ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-20 22:51                         ` Jack Johnson
2009-07-20 22:56                           ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-21  0:31                             ` Dan Cross
2009-07-23  2:10       ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-07-20  9:32 ` cej
2009-07-20 11:04   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2014-04-17 12:53   ` arisawa
2014-04-17 12:55     ` erik quanstrom

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