Ivan,
Evidently that was introduced in 6.2-RELEASE:
"The cp(1) utility now supports a -l option, which causes it to create
hardlinks to the source files instead of copying them."
Thanks for posting and subsequently drawing my attention to it.
Time to upgrade I suppose :)
-Modulok-
On 7/13/09,
Modulok wrote:
What is the easiest way to copy a directory tree as hard links?
Linux has a nice little 'cp -al' flag combo to do this. The FreeBSD
It's also present in FreeBSD:
-lCreate hard links to regular files in a hierarchy instead of
copy-
ing.
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On Monday 13 July 2009 00:17:14 Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Modulok wrote:
> > What is the easiest way to copy a directory tree as hard links?
> >
> > Linux has a nice little 'cp -al' flag combo to do this. The FreeBSD
> > cp(1) manual page says to use pax or tar, but how do I get the ability
> > to re
Modulok wrote:
What is the easiest way to copy a directory tree as hard links?
Linux has a nice little 'cp -al' flag combo to do this. The FreeBSD
cp(1) manual page says to use pax or tar, but how do I get the ability
to rename the file without first creating a destination file? I don't
want an
What is the easiest way to copy a directory tree as hard links?
Linux has a nice little 'cp -al' flag combo to do this. The FreeBSD
cp(1) manual page says to use pax or tar, but how do I get the ability
to rename the file without first creating a destination file? I don't
want an archive, just reg
