[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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