Thread: FileSys Problem

Hello! I’m new to Mandriva (Mandriva One install) and I’m having a strange problem. The copy & paste feature works in every respect except one: the Filesystem. When I open filesys I have NO paste option. Whether I try a right-click menu, the browser Edit menu or Ctl-v, I cannot paste. Is this normal in Mandriva? If not, is there anything I might try to fix this? If it is normal, then I have a command-line question. In Terminal, I know how to copy single (or a few) files from one directory/folder to another. Also how to copy a directory to another directory. But how do I copy all the files IN a source dir to a destination dir without copying the source directory itself? (I definately don’t want to have to type in the names of 30 files.) Thanks!

Originally Posted by dniaak

Hello! I’m new to Mandriva (Mandriva One install) and I’m having a strange problem. The copy & paste feature works in every respect except one: the Filesystem. When I open filesys I have NO paste option. Whether I try a right-click menu, the browser Edit menu or Ctl-v, I cannot paste. Is this normal in Mandriva? If not, is there anything I might try to fix this? If it is normal, then I have a command-line question. In Terminal, I know how to copy single (or a few) files from one directory/folder to another. Also how to copy a directory to another directory. But how do I copy all the files IN a source dir to a destination dir without copying the source directory itself? (I definately don’t want to have to type in the names of 30 files.) Thanks!

You can try this command..

cp -rf <source> <destination>