Graham Murray <gra...@gmurray.org.uk> wrote:

> joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes:
>
> > "cp" neither has a "-a" nor a "-x" option. Are you talking abut "gcp"?
>
> yes it does

See below....

> cp --help
> Usage: cp [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST
>   or:  cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY

So you are definitely not talking about "cp" but about "gcp" ;-)

BTW: if you like star not to cross filesystem boundaries, add -M.

Jörg

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