Kent Borg wrote: > I remember once doing that as a way to preserve hard link > relationships. It might be as old as Unix utilities can get, but tar is > still useful.
Old doesn't mean useless. That's one of the oldest tools in my toolkit, used long before GNU added directory recursion to cp. cpio can be used in a similar fashion when stuck with a broken tar implementation: find source/ -depth -print | cpio -pamdV dest -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
