Hello. David L. Johnson said:
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] > cp /* /.* /foobar > > cp --recursive /usr /var /etc /root /foobar > > (this should give copies or everything in the standard distribution into > /foobar/. I may have forgotten a directory, though). Don't copy /proc. Just wanted to warn you that cp copies symbolic links as real files. Thus if you had: -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 jjj lrwxrwxrwx 1 ms318 erisoft 3 Apr 11 11:07 kkk -> jjj in old and did "cp -r old new/" you would get -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 jjj -rw-r----- 1 ms318 erisoft 4 Apr 11 11:07 kkk in new/old/. (I tested this on a Solaris system, so I'm not 100% about the behaviour on Debian, but I think it ought to be the same.) The solution to this is to use tar (as in another Debianer's letter): "tar -cf - old | (cd new; tar -xpf - )". [Klippa, klapp, kluppit] > Wait for someone else to tear me apart on this list before you try it. > Please, folks, what is wrong with this?? > No tearing -> no tears. > -- > > David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Department of Mathematics http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/dlj0.html > Lehigh University > 14 E. Packer Avenue (610) 758-3759 > Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174 > > Happy, Martin S.
