ср, 23 окт. 2024 г., 18:38 Terje J. Hanssen via Cin < [email protected]>:
> From my past Unix & alike experience with Cromix/SVR5/BSD and > SunOS/Solaris, I seem to remember faintly that there was a difference > between "cp -r" and "cp -R". > Both copied recursively directories and files, while -R (possibly) also > followed symlinks and copied their targets. > > On SUSE Linux (which first version 1993 is told to orginate from the most > Unix like Slackware), the man pages for cp just say > > -R, -r, --recursive > copy directories recursively > > A previous thread on Stack Exchange, "Difference between cp -r and cp -R > (copy command)", mentions additionally POSIX defined and implementation > dependency. > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18712/difference-between-cp-r-and-cp-r-copy-command > > So I am used with "cp -R" for complete directory backup purpose; else I > use more effective "rsync" incremental backups to portable (USB) disks. > . > What do you use and think here about this? > cp -ar here .... also scp -a / scp -r between machines rsync -avz /data/data/com.termux/files/home/storage/downloads/ [email protected]:/home/guest/K38_sdcard1/Documents/ as one backup string I put in file for periodical manual execution. > > -- > Cin mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin >
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