David L. Johnson said: > > Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > 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 > > > Oops. Another gotcha. Is there a flag to cp to preserve links as > links? Not that I know of. As I'm at work using Solaris I can only state that according to the man pages cp can't on Solaris. Linux might have more options to cp. I recommend that you do "man cp" (hint, hint, nugde, wink).
> 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. Hmm. Well, if you do "tar -cf - some-files-or-directories | (cd some-other-directory; tar -xpf -)", I can't see why any big files would be created. > > -- > > 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 (610) 828-3708 > > And now; the larch, MartinS
