[H-GEN] I'm stumped.......

Robert Brockway robert at zen.humbug.org.au
Fri May 22 10:49:23 EDT 1998


Yeah yeah, people keep telling me :)  I forgot :)

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Craig Eldershaw wrote:

> >cp sux for this as it doesn't preserve permissions.  

[man page entry for cp -p snipped]

> tar -cf - /source | tar -xf - /dest
> 
> (plus lots of preserve options if so inclined).

i weas going to mention this option, but as I have never done it myself
felt I would leave it to an expert ;)
Cheers,
	-Robert 

--Robert Brockway B.Sc.  Email: robert at zen.humbug.org.au, robert at icc.net.au
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