On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jay Strauss wrote:
> Someone told me to copy all the bin from my ksh dist to my /bin directory.
> This seemed a little risky so I copied my /bin to /bin.0 just in case. Then
> I copied the ksh stuff to /bin. Now my machine is kinda hosed. I quickly:
>
> cd /bin.0
> cp -rf * /bin
When backing up stuff, use `cp -a <src> <dst>` rather than `cp -rf <src>
<dst>`. It preserves ownership, time/date, permissions, symlinks, the
whole bit.
-Mark
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Mark K. Kim
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