MediaWiki:Sitenotice:
2025-12-29: I have restored the wiki to a backup from the end of November. Starting in September 2025, accesses went form the 800MB-1.2GB range per month to 26GB in September, 42GB in October, and 70GB in November with most accesses originating from China. As soon as I realized what was causing all the access problems in November, I shut it down (it had reached 36GB by then) behind a password/login screen. The database had gotten corrupted, and I tried a restore from just before the spike in access but that didn't work. Thus, end of November. I still have the other daily backups so if there were any important additions in December, let me know and maybe they can be recovered. - Allen H.
COPY
COPY
COPY is creates a copy of a file, either with the same name in another location, or with a different name anywhere.
Syntax: COPY [<opts>] <srcpath> [<dstpath>] [<opts>]
Options :
-a = abort on error -p = don't print files copied (use with -w) -r = rewrite destination -s = single drive copy -v = verify the copy -w=<dir> = copy to <dir> -x = copy from execution directory
COPY will fail with ERROR 218 (File already exists) if the destination file already exists. Using the -r option will prevent the error and replace the current file with the one being copied.
The -w option is needed when working with wildcards. (Remember to type : before the command when using wildcards)
Examples:
:copy /d1/MY_FILES/*.txt -w=/r0
Will copy all the files with the extension .txt from /d1/MY_FILES to the Ramdisk /r0
:copy /dd/CMDS/* -w=/d1/CMDS -r
Will copy all the files from /dd/CMDS to /d1/CMDS , replacing any already existing one.
Equivalent / similar commands in other OSs