Re: Moving directory/folder together with its files

[Thomas Ribbrock]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 08:46:20AM -0500, Mobeen Azhar wrote:
> Also I think the mv command will preserve the permissions and ownership of
> the original files whil the cp command will not.

When using GNU cp (which Linux has), "cp -a" will preserve all
permissions. As for mv, however, I think it doesn't work across
different partitions, though I might mix that up with Solaris... :-}

Thomas
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