cp --recursive

[Travis Low]

Pedro Fradique da Silva wrote:
> I'm trying to copy several files froman NT4 to Linux using
> "smbmount //winnt/dados /mnt/tmp -o username=foo,password=bar"
> and then "cp -R *.mdb /home".
> This is one of my backup steps.
> The problem is it won't go recursive. It just copies the files on the
> first dir.

Do you have directories named "*.mdb" ?  If not, then the cp is working
correctly.  Sounds like you want something more like:

  find /mnt/tmp -name '*.mdb' -exec cp {} /home

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