[ale] cp command

Nomad the Wanderer nomad at orci.com
Thu May 21 19:30:19 EDT 1998


Thus spake Glen Bankston (microsys at alltel.net):

> Thanks for those who responded BUT
> 
> You do not understand!  There is no cp command on those rescue diskettes!
> I can go to /mnt/bin and the 'cp' binary will not execute even though i can
> see it.
> 
> i need to use a limited subset of cmds that the Red Hat 5.0 book shows.
> dir, cp, mv
> 
> etc, are not part of the commands available.
> 
> Glen
> 

Try /mnt/bin/cp then.  If you can't execute it, it's not in your path.
And it should be on the disks anyway.

Robert
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FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'






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