RE: equivalent to linux cp -al
What about cpio? cpio -dplm should do what you need it to. This operates in pass-through to give you a recreation of the directories rather than an archive. Input is from standard i/p. HTH. BH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck Swiger Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:14 AM To: Matias Surdi Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: equivalent to linux cp -al Matias Surdi wrote: I've a script on a linux box wich makes backups, it uses the cp -al command to make hard links and preserve atributes. Is there an equivalent on FreeBSD? cp -p comes reasonably close, but will duplicate files rather than creating hard links. If you need to preserve hard links, consider using tar or maybe rsync to do the copying instead. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
equivalent to linux cp -al
Hi, I've a script on a linux box wich makes backups, it uses the cp -al command to make hard links and preserve atributes. Is there an equivalent on FreeBSD? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: equivalent to linux cp -al
Matias Surdi escribió: Hi, I've a script on a linux box wich makes backups, it uses the cp -al command to make hard links and preserve atributes. Is there an equivalent on FreeBSD? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Replying to myself. I've noticed that I've to use cpio instead. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: equivalent to linux cp -al
Matias Surdi wrote: I've a script on a linux box wich makes backups, it uses the cp -al command to make hard links and preserve atributes. Is there an equivalent on FreeBSD? cp -p comes reasonably close, but will duplicate files rather than creating hard links. If you need to preserve hard links, consider using tar or maybe rsync to do the copying instead. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
