Yeah, I also endorse CCC as my actual first choice for this task, I was just 
thinking about how to do it with native MacOS stuff.

> On Jul 23, 2017, at 4:39 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2017-07-23, at 2:20 PM, Neil Laubenthal <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> It’s not a command line thing…but CarbonCopyCloner will do that for you 
>> pretty nicely. I think it uses sudo ditto underneath it all…or maybe rsync, 
>> not really sure. 
>> 
>> It typically gets pretty high marks on actually cloning everything.
>> 
>> 
>>> 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?
> 
> Considering that my first attempt failed to account for all 5 timestamps 
> (remember, only 3 are seen by unix programs, but finder wants to show you 
> last opened and date added, and those are NOT atime and ctime), I went back 
> and did a time machine copy.
> 
> Still in backup; I'll have a restore ready to look at in the morning.
> 
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