What about cpio? cpio -dplm should do what you need it to. This operates in pass-through to give you a recreation of the directories rather than an archive. Input is from standard i/p.
HTH. BH -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Swiger Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:14 AM To: Matias Surdi Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: equivalent to linux cp -al Matias Surdi wrote: > I've a script on a linux box wich makes backups, it uses the "cp -al" > command to make hard links and preserve atributes. > > Is there an equivalent on FreeBSD? "cp -p" comes reasonably close, but will duplicate files rather than creating hard links. If you need to preserve hard links, consider using tar or maybe rsync to do the copying instead. -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
