On Sunday 20 February 2005 05:11 pm, Arys P. Deloso wrote:
> Q2: How do you use the "cp" command to copy everything like "tar"
> does by default
> (i.e. for copying exact duplicate of a directory tree without
> tarring)?
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 ~ alternatively, without compressing, tar can be handy to copy all 
sym-links etc. like this :-
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                tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - )

best rgds
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