Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
<snip>
>
> 4. Run the copy command as "cp -a /old /new". Read the man page for cp to
> get an explanation of the -a flag.
>
<snip>
Instead of cp, I personally use tar for this for the siple fact that cp
is a bit picky about special files (esp. named pipes), found in /dev/
and /var/... and /tmp. so instead of the above command, I'd use
$ tar cfp - -C /old . | tar xfp - -C /new
this is spelled thus:
_C_reate a tar _F_ile (- = STDOUT) and _P_reserve as much as you can of
the permissions. To do this, first _C_hange to /old, then use '.' as
source.
Take the output and pipe it to another tar, _X_tracting the stream from
_F_ile '-' after _C_hanging to /new.
I got cp's stuck on copying a 'p' file - since then, I use tar
exclusively for such things.
Marc
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