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From: grail@animagic.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Giao Nguyen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best way to copy directory trees
Date: 01 Aug 1996 15:00:29 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
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Message-ID: <GRAIL.96Aug1110029@animagic.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
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In-reply-to: ts@infodirekt.de's message of Thu, 01 Aug 1996 15:59:09 +0200
In article <ts-0108961559090001@mac.infodirekt.de> ts@infodirekt.de (Thomas Schreiber) writes:
> From: ts@infodirekt.de (Thomas Schreiber)
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 15:59:09 +0200
> Organization: infodirekt, Munich, Germany
>
> I have installed a second drive on my FreeBSD 2.1 machine
> and want to move a few file systems around now.
>
> What is the best way to copy directory trees with preserving
> access dates, permissions, links and so on?
>
> I know about
>
> cp -pr
> tar cf - | (cd destdir; tar xf -)
>
> but both seem to not exactly preserve directory trees.
Well, how about cp -pR?
Giao
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