Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 22:11:50 -0500 (CDT) From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: docs/6801: pax manpage error Message-ID: <199805310311.WAA00947@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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>Number: 6801
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: error in example for pax
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat May 30 21:20:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: David Kelly
>Organization:
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386
>Environment:
>Description:
% man pax says:
The following commands:
mkdir newdir
cd olddir
pax -rw . newdir
will copy the entire olddir directory hierarchy to newdir.
>How-To-Repeat:
nospam: {1010} mkdir olddir newdir
nospam: {1011} cd olddir
nospam: {1012} touch tomcat callie patches grumpy rebok
nospam: {1013} ls
callie grumpy patches rebok tomcat
nospam: {1014} pax -rw . newdir
pax: Cannot access destination directory newdir <No such file or directory>
nospam: {1015} pax -rw . ../newdir
nospam: {1016} cd ../newdir
nospam: {1017} ls
callie grumpy patches rebok tomcat
nospam: {1018}
>Fix:
correct command (as shown above) is "pax -rw . ../newdir"
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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