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Anthony E. Caudel wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> What tool or command do you use to make your copies? I remember |
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>> seeing an invocation of tar piped to tar to ensure that all |
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>> dates, permissions etc are preserved, even on pipes and other |
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>> esoteric things, but my memory being what it is of course I can't |
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>> remember it. |
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> Maybe: cd /sourcedir; tar -cpf - . | (cd /destdir; tar -xvf -) |
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Just be careful with this one. If the destination directory doesn't |
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exist, then you'll overwrite the sourcefiles with the first block... |
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Ooops... (Having said that, it's still my favourite way of copying |
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lots of files from one place to another). |
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