Graham Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] (Joerg Schilling) writes: > > > "cp" neither has a "-a" nor a "-x" option. Are you talking abut "gcp"? > > yes it does
See below.... > cp --help > Usage: cp [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST > or: cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY So you are definitely not talking about "cp" but about "gcp" ;-) BTW: if you like star not to cross filesystem boundaries, add -M. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
