I know that we can copy things from one directory to another using the command:  cp -Ri /path/one/* /path/two/*   Here:  R = recursive i = interactive  My questions:   Does this command copy everything? (Hidden folders &amp; files, system folder &amp; files, etc.) If not, then what is the command? Or are there other softwares available for the job?
I am trying to copy the contents of a folder to another folder in a different directory using terminal.  Would somebody be able to provide me an example of the command line syntax required to achieve this?
How can I force a long string without any blank to be wrapped? Install MySQLdb (for python) as non-compressed egg The install instructions are:  $ python setup.py build $ sudo python setup.py install # or su first   This gives me an .egg file. How do I tell the install to dump the files as a normal, uncompressed library?  Thanks! I am given this problem: let $a\ge0$,$b\ge0$, and the sequences $a_n$ and $b_n$ are defined in this way: $a_0:=a$, $b_0:=b$ and $a_{n+1}:= \sqrt{a_nb_n}$ and $b_{n+1}:=\frac{1}{2}(a_n+b_n)$ for all $n\in\Bbb{N}$    To prove is that both sequences converge and that they have the same limit. I don't know how to show this. I have spent 2 hours on this, no sign of success Isomorphism of quotient modules implies isomorphism of submodules? Let $A$ be a commutative ring, $M$ an $A$-module and $N_1, N_2$ two submodules of $M$.  If we have $M/N_1 \cong M/N_2$, does this imply $N_1 \cong N_2$?  This seems so trivial, but I just don't see a proof... Thanks! Understanding Tag badges I very recently earned the below badge. But I am sorry, I do not understand it.    It says      Earned at least 100 total score for at least 20 answers in the java tag.   But I have answered 140 questions under Java tag and pretty sure would have earned more than 100 points. Then why did I receive it so late. Currently I have 3.3K points on SO.  Secondly if so, I have answered about 41 questions under Scala tag, then why didn't I receive this badge for Scala? I heard myself saying something was "tickety-boo", meaning good, successful, or satisfactory. Does anyone know where this strange-sounding phrase originated? Is there a reason the British omit the article when they "go to hospital"? Why do British speakers omit the article in constructions like "go to hospital" or "go on holiday"? Pretty much all American speakers would rephrase those as "go to the hospital" and "go on a holiday", I think. Is there any good reason, or forgotten sense behind those words that might explain why the articles are ommitted?  Are there other common constructions other than those two that the British use that drop the article?  EDIT: I just realized per Kosmonaut's comment that Americans do much the same thing with a few nouns, so this isn't all that special.   Do grammaticists designate nouns that can have their article dropped with anything, i.e. do they have anything in common? I read following in a web site ()     Lenses with maximum apertures of f2.8 allow the camera to use all high   precision sensors. In low light or other situations that are hostile   to autofocus, that’s a big deal. Lenses with a maximum aperture of   f4.0 use only the center focus sensor in its “high precision” mode,   and use the other sensors in their “horizontal line” only mode. Lenses   with a maximum aperture of f5.6 use all sensors in their   “horizontal-only” mode, and lenses with a maximum aperture of f8 use   only the center sensor point, and that with horizontal sensitivity   only.   I want to understand if this is completely true? I am raising this because recently I have purchased a Nikon 70-200 f/4 lens and would like to understand if I have made a wise investment, or, should I collect some more money and buy a 70-200 f/2.8 VR-II lens. Who built the fortress of Dol Goldur, and when was it built? And was it always a place for evil, or Sauron just occupied it?  Despite the fact that Mordor is much better fortified; artificially by the old fortifications,  and geographically, as it is surrounded by the mountains. Also considering the presence of mount doom that seem to enhance Sauron's power, Sauron chose to start his campaign from Dol Goldur, despite Mordor being ready for quite some time.  Why did he choose this enigmatic fortress, and not go straight for Mordor or even go earlier? How do I return a variable from Google Maps JavaScript geocoder callback? Multiple Image in Canvas ItemsControl What should I do if two libraries provide a function with the same name generating a conflict? What should I do if I have two libraries that provide functions with equivalent names? How to deal with high correlation among predictors in multiple regression? I found a reference in an article that goes like:     According to Tabachnick &amp; Fidell (1996) the independent variables with   a bivariate correlation more than .70 should not be included in   multiple regression analysis.   Problem: I used in a multiple regression design 3 variables correlated >.80, VIF's at about .2 - .3, Tolerance ~ 4- 5. I cannot exclude any of them (important predictors and outcome). When I regressed the outcome on the 2 predictors which correlated at .80, they remained both significant, each predicted important variances, and these same two variables have   the largest part and semipartial correlation coefficients amongst all 10 variables included (5 controls).   Question: Is my model valid despite high correlations? Any references greatly welcomed!    Thank you for the answers!  I did not use Tabachnick and Fidell as a guideline, I found this reference in an article dealing with high collinearity amongst predictors.   So, basically, I have too few cases for the number of predictors in the model (many categorical, dummy coded control variables- age, tenure, gender, etc) - 13 variables for 72 cases. The Condition Index is ~ 29 with all the controls in and ~23 without them (5 variables).   I cannot drop any variable or use factorial analysis to combine them because theoretically they have sense on their own. It is too late to get more data. Since I am conducting the analysis in SPSS perhaps it would be best to find a syntax for ridge regression (although I haven't done this before and interpreting the results would be new to me).   If it matters, when I conducted stepwise regression, the same 2 highly correlated variables remained the single significant predictors of the outcome.  And I still do not understand if the partial correlations which are high for each of these variables matter as an explanation for why I have kept them in the model (in case ridge regression can't be performed).   Would you say the "Regression diagnostic: identifying influential data and sources of collinearity / David A. Belsley, Edwin Kuh and Roy E. Welsch, 1980" would be helpful in understanding multicollinearity? Or might other references be useful? How to determine the architecture of an installation or Live CD/DVD? How can I determine which architecture (x86 or x64) my Ubuntu installation medium is for?  I don't have it installed, I just need to know which files on the installation media I can use to determine the architecture. FaceTime and iMessage - an error occurred during activation I couldn't log in to FaceTime so I did a factory reset of my MacBook. It worked for a brief period of time and then suddenly it just logged out.  I believe it might have been after iCloud synced with keychain or after I changed my local host name and computer name.  I have seen other users facing this issue but no solutions. Is there a troubleshooting guide or should I just contact Apple support since I can't use their service without activation to my Mac? See screenshot:    Curiously, there are older badge achievement messages further down the list which display properly. After I deleted my Ubuntu partition, I rebooted my computer and I only get a prompt:   grub rescue &gt;   The command ls lists   (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos2) (hd0,msdos1) (hd1) (hd1,msdos1)   I check them one by one:  ls (hd0,msdos5)/ ls (hd0,msdos1)/   But I cannot find the right partition. Proof of $(A - B) - C = A - (B \cup C)$ I have several of these types of problems, and it would be great if I can get some help on one so I have a guide on how I can solve these.  I tried asking another problem, but it turned out to be a special case problem, so hopefully this one works out normally.   The question is:  Prove $(A - B) - C = A - (B \cup C)$  I know I must prove both sides are not equivalent to each other to complete this proof. Here's my shot: We start with left side.   if $x \in C$, then $x \notin A$ and $x \in B$. So $x \in (B \cup C)$ So $A - (B \cup C)$   Is this the right idea? Should I then reverse the proof to prove it the other way around, or is that unnecessary? Should it be more formal?  Thanks! What's the deepest reason why QCD bound states have integer charge? What's the deepest reason why QCD bound states have integer electric charge, i.e. equal to an integer times the electron charge?  Given that the quarks have the fractional electric charges they do, this is a consequence of color confinement. The charges of the quarks are constrained in the context of the standard model by anomaly cancellation, and can be explained by grand unification. The GUT explanation for the charges doesn't care about the bound state spectrum of the QCD sector, so it just seems to be a coincidence that hadrons (which are composite) have integer charge, and that leptons (which are elementary) also have integer charge.   Now maybe there's some anthropic argument for why such a coincidence is useful (in the case of proton and electron, it gives us atoms as we know them). Or maybe you can argue that GUTs naturally produce fractionally charged particles and strongly coupled sectors, and it's just not much of a coincidence.   But I remain curious as to whether Seiberg duality, anyons, some UV/IR relationship... could really produce something like the lepton-hadron charge coincidence, for deeper reasons. I suppose one is looking for a theory in which properties of bound states in one sector have a direct and nontrivial relationship to properties of elementary states in another sector. Is there anything like this out there?   (This question was prompted by muster-mark's many recent questions about fractional charge, and by a  that the hadron-lepton charge coincidence is a "semi-coincidence", which assured me that I wasn't overlooking some obvious explanation.) How do I backup my Ubuntu Phone?