On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Eric Siegerman wrote:

> But all of those -- tar, cpio, rsync -- are kludges.  Is it just
> me, or do other people also find it ludicrous that 30+ years on,
> UNIX still doesn't have a proper copy command?

Huh?  You just showed there are enough flavors to suit just about
any taste.  The only obvious one I see missing is dd, which is
great for copying a whole partition.

-Mitch

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