> Oops. Another gotcha. Is there a flag to cp to preserve links as > links?
-a
> The disadvantage of making a beeg tarfile is that it will take
> up a lot of room, so you need to have 3x(distribution size) available to
> do it that way.
Just use a pipe:
( cd oldir ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd newdir ; tar xvf - )
David
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