"cp" under Linux has become somewhat powerful; the following worked fine for me:
cp -a a c && rm -rf a Copy, recursively and with permissions, etc., retained, dir "a" into c; then, if the copy worked, blow away a. Note that it will overwrite your stuff, though I think if you have "noclobber" set, it'll prompt, though my recollection's somewhat hazy. -Ken > One approach might be to just have one instance of > tar (standing in the source directory) squirt all > the files over to another instance that's standing > in the destination directory, maybe like this: > > cd srcDir ; tar cf - . | tar xf - -C destDir > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
