Chuck Swiger wrote:tar handles symbolic links properly, whereas cp will "copy through" the contents of the link.
Also true for cp -R? :-)
No, but not all systems have "cp -R", although FreeBSD does. Likewise for the "-p" or "--preserve-permissions" option...
-- -Chuck
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