OK,OK... I didn't know cp had been updated... I use
pyramid,Reliant,Sun,BSD,HP & linux here. I havn't fully read the GNU cp
man page:-) until now..
I just did some testing.... Yes You are all correct I can copy a Symlink
and it doesn't do anything strange to it.
I will remember that for next time.... hmm I wonder if I can put GNU
utils on a pyramid box.....hmmm better not..:-)
"m. allan noah" wrote:
> cp -a most assuredly works. gets me where i am going every time :)
>
> allan
>
> Chris Jester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > I always use: cp -dpRv and it works just fine. :-)
> >
> >
> >
> > At 4:32 PM -0700 6/10/99, David Robinson wrote:
> > >You did what?????
> > >
> > >cp -a????
> > >
> > >It gets them everytime:-)
> > >
> > >cp & symlinks are not friends...
> > >
> > >If you ever need to copy a directory or filesystem do a tar! It
> will not
> > >only keep the permissions & owner bits correct, It will also keep
> > >symlinks pointing the correct way..
> > >
> > >There is a trick to copy a directory from one place to another
> using tar
> > >but I can't remember it right now... something like:
> > >tar -cv . | (cd /newdir; tar -x --)
> > >I don't think that's it.... I'm sure someone else here knows it
> by
> > >heart:-)
> > >
> > >"Nixon, Shon" wrote:
<SNIP>
