On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, David L. Johnson wrote: > Oops. Another gotcha. Is there a flag to cp to preserve links as > links? 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. >
what about simple: # (cd /olddir; tar cf - * .[^.]* ) | (cd /newdir; tar xvf - ) no additional space requred. (BTW idea is from mini-tips.HOWTO) I hope smeone corrects me if I have made any stupid typos here.
