On Monday 29 May 2006 09:11, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > What tool or command do you use to make your copies? I remember seeing an
> > invocation of tar piped to tar to ensure that all dates, permissions etc
> > are preserved, even on pipes and other esoteric things, but my memory
> > being what it is of course I can't remember it.
>
> Maybe: cd /sourcedir; tar -cpf - . | (cd /destdir; tar -xvf -)
>
perhaps
cp -a
would be simpler?
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