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Re: cpio question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Tue Dec 1 04:08:40 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 09:09:46 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <3662E16C.EF4501E2@nook.net>; from Ramon Gandia on Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 09:18:20AM -0900
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Ramon Gandia writes:
> I am copying one partition to another using cpio, but empty
> directory trees are not being copied; also, if I use the
> -d option (create leading directories when needed), I get
> permissions of 700 ( drwx------ )
Ramon,
if you don't *need* tu use cpio, you could use tar for that. IIRC, the Tips
and Tricks HOWTO (sp?) contains a working syntax for that.
Thomas
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