Jamie wrote: [ ... ]I don't know what the actual rationale is for this. Can anyone explain why it is oftentimes better to tar something rather than using cp when copying directories and their contents?
tar handles symbolic links properly, whereas cp will "copy through" the contents of the link.
Another technique is 'cd /source ; find . -print | cpio -pdmv /dest'.
But none of the built in tools seem to preserve links, flags, and sparseness. If you want as close to a true copy as possible, check out the cpdup port.
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