From the console, as root user, I try to copy files between two local directories. It doesn't work. My 0,1% Linux knowledge does not help here. Any help is highly appreciated:

 

Source directory:

root@Tower2:~#  ls -lisa "/mnt/cache/system/appdata/tinymediamanager/data/"
total 51476
3861759     0 drwxr-xr-x 1 nobody users      108 Sep  7 17:59 ./
3861601     0 drwxrwxrwx 1 nobody users      730 Sep 11 14:53 ../
3861764    16 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody users    12384 Sep  8 17:01 config.xml
3862052 42068 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody users 43077632 Sep  9 07:38 movies.db
3862061     4 -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody users      150 Sep  7 17:59 scraper_imdb.conf
3862060     4 -rw-rw-rw- 1 nobody users     1079 Sep 11 10:29 tmm.prop
3862053  9384 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody users  9609216 Sep 11 10:29 tvshows.db

Target directory:

root@Tower2:~# ls -lisa "/mnt/user/Data/unRAID/Tower2/tinymediamanager_backup/data/"
total 0
49087309 0 drwxrwxrwx 1 itsme users  6 Sep 11 14:46 ./
49087306 0 drwxrwxrwx 1 itsme users 74 Sep 11 14:46 ../

Failing copy command:

root@Tower2:~# cp "/mnt/cache/system/appdata/tinymediamanager/data/*" "/mnt/user/Data/unRAID/Tower2/tinymediamanager_backup/data/"
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/cache/system/appdata/tinymediamanager/data/*': No such file or directory

I tried with all possible wildcards -> no joy.

 

The problem is that you put the first parameter to the cp command in double quotes which means that it doesn’t expand the "*" to the list of file names but rather looks for a file called "*".   Remove the double quotes.

Edited September 11, 20187 yr by remotevisitor

Uah, stupid me.

 

Thanks a lot.