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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Best way to copy directory trees
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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 06:20:04 GMT
>> On Thu, 01 Aug 1996 15:59:09 +0200, ts@infodirekt.de (Thomas
>> Schreiber) said:
TS> I have installed a second drive on my FreeBSD 2.1 machine
TS> and want to move a few file systems around now.
TS> What is the best way to copy directory trees with preserving
TS> access dates, permissions, links and so on?
TS> I know about
TS> cp -pr
TS> tar cf - | (cd destdir; tar xf -)
cpio does:
find . -depth -print | cpio -dump destdir
(-dump is -p for pass through mode, -d for create dirs, -u for
unconditional, -m to preserve modification times)
The extra advantage is that using find to select the files to copy you
can have much finer control than copying just everything below the
current directory, if you want.
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