On Jul 24, 2007, at 8:10 AM, Richard Troth wrote:
Will a cp command correctly copy links and other special files?No.But the three "archivers" I am familiar with will: tar, cpio, and rsync.(perhaps others too) Use tar.
Well, GNU cp, with the -a option, will. Other cps can do something similar with some combination of flags. But use tar anyway. Adam
