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From: martini@heaven7.snafu.de (Martin Ibert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best way to copy directory trees
Date: 19 Aug 1996 10:26:47 +0200
Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany
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In-reply-to: mickey@cantina.clinet.fi's message of 3 Aug 1996 18:22:43 +0300
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In article <4tvqs3$7l8@cantina.clinet.fi> mickey@cantina.clinet.fi (Mika Ruohotie) writes:
: find * -print | cpio -pdmv /mnt
^
Not such a good idea, since you will lose any .hidden files in the
source directory. "find ." ("-print" is optional, that is what find
defaults to anyway) avoids this pitfall.
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