On 2013-01-07 at 09:54:56 +0100, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
> Hi Reinhard,
>
> I have a problem with your method.
> On my Mac (OSX 10.8.2) my cp does not have a -d option.
>
> My question is what does the -d option do on your system.
Hi Keith,
from the GNU cp(1) manmage:
-d same as --no-dereference --preserve=links
-P, --no-dereference
never follow symbolic links in SOURCE
--preserve[=ATTR_LIST]
preserve the specified attributes (default: mode,ownership,time‐
stamps), if possible additional attributes: context, links,
xattr, all
-p same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps
-R, -r, --recursive
copy directories recursively
As far as I understand the BSD cp(1) manpage, symlinks are preserved
iff the -R option is specified, hence the -d option shouldn't be needed.
Regards,
Reinhard
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