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Re: moving contents of hard drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julien Maillard)
Sat Oct 26 18:55:17 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Oct 1996 14:25:18 PDT."
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Reply-To: maillard@vt.edu
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 18:52:10 -0400
From: Julien Maillard <maillard@tulipe.val.org>
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> Info junkie wrote:
> >
> > I'll probably go with cp -dRp /source /target
> >
> > -d maintain any symlinks
> > -R do it recursively
> > -p retain permissions and all other attributes.
>
> This is exactly the same as cp -a.
and is the above equivalent to:
`(cd /source;tar cf - .)|(cd /target;tar xvfp -)` ? is one preferable?
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