On 2017-07-23, at 12:00 PM, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote: > The way we used to evade this problem 30 years ago was to select an archival > or compression utility that preserved all of the file system properties we > needed transferred, throw its output into a pipe, and use the dearchival > invocation to re-extract it into the target space.
So, the best way is to make a time machine backup, and the restore that??? Sheesh :-) > >> On Jul 23, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What is the best way to duplicate a directory tree on a mac? >> >> Assume I'm at the command line, as "sudo bash". >> >> Assume I want *everything*, as much as possible -- ACL's, ownerships, file >> forks, etc. -- as perfect of a "clone" as you can get (and no, there is no >> clone command -- >> keybounceMBP:/ michael$ man -k clone >> Clone(3pm) - recursively copy Perl datatypes >> curl_easy_duphandle(3) - Clone a libcurl session handle >> nano(1) - Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone >> snmp_pdu_add_variable(3), snmp_varlist_add_variable(3), >> snmp_add_null_var(3), snmp_clone_varbind(3), snmp_set_var_objid(3), >> snmp_set_var_value(3), snmp_set_var_typed_value(3), >> snmp_set_var_typed_integer(3), print_variable(3), fprint_variable(3), >> snprint_variable(3), print_value(3), fprint_value(3), snprint_value(3), >> snmp_free_var(3), snmp_free_varbind(3) - netsnmp_varbind_api functions >> snmp_pdu_create(3), snmp_clone_pdu(3), snmp_fix_pdu(3), snmp_free_pdu(3) - >> netsnmp_pdu_api functions >> git-clone(1) - Clone a repository into a new directory >> >> -- none of those are "clone a file".) >> >> --- >> Entertaining minecraft videos >> http://YouTube.com/keybounce >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
