At 10:42 PM 7/5/00 +0200, Marc Mutz wrote:
>
>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
Yes, Marc. This works nicely too. And it has the advantage of being easy to
adapt to machine-to-machine copying, via ssh tunneling.
I haven't actually experienced the problems with cp that you describe,
though. Dunno why.
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