On Sunday 16 November 2003 15:42, Paul Fraser wrote: > Does cp -a also preserve permissions? If not, you'll want to use -p as > well. I can't try it since I'm not at a Linux box at the moment.
In my previous mail: -a, --archive Preserve as much as possible of the structure and attributes of the original files in the copy (but do not preserve directory structure). Equivalent to -dpR. -a is just shorthand for -dpR = copy symlinks as is, including permissions, recursively Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
