[1601] in Athena Bugs
cp man page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 5 09:27:17 1989
From: <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 89 09:18:18 EST
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The cp man page should specify that "cp -r" follows links. It
should also refer the user to "tar" for copying without following
links. Since the tar man page is a bit too obscure for the average
user, maybe including the suggested use of tar in the cp man page
would be sufficient. Here is the line:
cd fromdir; tar cf - . | (cd todir; tar xf -)
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it. Thank you.
-David Krikorian
