On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:51:12PM +0800, Mark Anthony J. Mercado wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > like i said, this was how i did it, the easiest and fastest. i didnt bother with
> > the tar anymore...since it uses more cpu cycles, thus makes the operation
> > slower. i dont trust cp either because that messes up permissions and
> > ownerships.
>
> i use cp -pdR
Or the much shorter... cp -a
> it copies recursively, preserves permissions, and ownership, and copy
> links as is ... hmmm, haven't seen it fail yet... or it does and I just
> didn't know it :(
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