Simple Unix Question ...

Hello all..
i need to copy a file from CD to Hard Disk on sun 5.8.

The Equvilent in DOS is
D:\> copy *.* c:\test\

What is the Equvilent command in Unix ?...

any help is appreciated.

Thanks
Ron

cp -r target destination

eg.

cp -r * /vol/disk/.

Hi Ron,

Before you copy you need to mount cdrom, after mounting use the following command to copy files from cdrom to root(/) filesystem under cdrom_files directory.


# mkdir cdrom_files
#cd /cdrom
# cp * /cdrom_files/.

regards
anandkl

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Originally posted by anandkl
Before you copy you need to mount cdrom, after mounting use the following command to copy files from cdrom to root(/) filesystem under cdrom_files directory.
# mkdir cdrom_files
#cd /cdrom
# cp * /cdrom_files/.

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Mount the cdrom? That is true in the RARE instance Solaris Volume Management does not automatically mount the cdrom for you. Now, if the original poster does not know how to do a simple copy, what you makes you think he knows how to mount a file system? Your answer, although technically correct, is useless.