On 5 Feb., 11:37, Tony Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> krischik wrote:
>
> [...]> I would use "cp --archive test.txt test2.txt" in which case the EA's
> > are copied as well. At least on SuSE Linux 9.2 onwards. And of course
> > the file would still be UTF-16 - after all it's "copy" not "convert".
>
> > Without meaning offence: You should read up a little on the subject as
> > you knowledge is not up to date.
> [...]
> > Done: GNU cp will do that if --archive is used.
>
> [...]
>
> Hmm... According to "info cp" (on my openSUSE 10.3 system), -a or --archive is
> equivalent to -dpPR, which means:
>
> -d copy symlinks as symlinks and preserve hardlinks between sources in the
> copies
> -p preserve attributes. If not specifying which attributes, the default is:
> mode,ownership,timestamps (xattrs must be specified explicitly to be included)
> -P copy symlinks as symlinks (sic)
> -R copy directories recursively
Well I did not read the manual but copied a file with xattr (Samba
creates them at mass) and saw what happened. But that was on a fairly
old SuSE 9.2. I check SuSE 10.3 when I am home.
Martin
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