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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best way to copy directory trees
Date: 1 Aug 1996 08:51:01 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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Message-ID: <4tqjp5$eip@bofh.noc.best.net>
References: <ts-0108961559090001@mac.infodirekt.de>
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In article <ts-0108961559090001@mac.infodirekt.de>,
Thomas Schreiber <ts@infodirekt.de> wrote:
>What is the best way to copy directory trees with preserving
>access dates, permissions, links and so on?
>I know about
> cp -pr
> tar cf - | (cd destdir; tar xf -)
>but both seem to not exactly preserve directory trees.
From the cp man page:
COMPATIBILITY
Historic versions of the cp utility had a -r option. This implementation
supports that option, however, its use is strongly discouraged, as it
does not correctly copy special files, symbolic links or fifo's.
So, as someone else suggested to you, you should use cp -pR instead.
rone
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