Notices

Hi,
I have changed a lot of my icons and I would like to copy the folder with all the icons in to make kind of a backup. I have made a folder on the emmc called icons and using xterm I have run the following command:

sudo gainroot
cp \usr\share\icons\* \home\user\MyDocs\icons

but it doesn't work. I get an error - 'omitting directory \usr\share\icons\default' and ''omitting directory \usr\share\icons\hicolor'

Any offers of help?

You should use / instead of \ .

And perhaps add -r to make it into a recursive copy.

Please keep in mind that you can not create symbolic links under MyDocs.

tried -r option and i get plenty of errors stating 'cannot create symlink'

Is there no way to copy all the icons?

mind that the "*" will copy only non-hidden files (those not beginning with ".")

so either check for them or instead use
cp -r /usr/share/icons /home/user/MyDocs
this will copy the entire folder

Anyone got any ideas?

The obvious solution is to copy the icons you want to a place where symbolic links can be created.

One such place is /home/user . Create a directory there and copy to it. Just keep in mind that the size of this partition is 2GByte and it's used by other applications to store data.

How do I then copy from /home/user to a pc via usb?

OP, your two problems are:
1. backslashes( \ ). These are NOT USED for directory seperation in Linux. In windows, yes, but not in Linux. Use forward-slashes instead( / ) (as ToJa92 already said).
2. no '-r' option for recursive copying. (as Joorin already said).

Do -both- of these things.

You could also create a zip file instead:
EDIT: The above is ONE line (with a space between the filename and the directory to backup).

And if You want a date/time stamp (day-month-year-hour-minute) on the file too do it like this:
(That's 2 lines)...

EDIT: zip and unzip commands can be installed using:
(or through the App Manager - search for "zip" in All applications)