On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 03:16:31AM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
David Murphy thought:
> Quoting <20001229173741.A17664 at blackstar.co.uk>
> by Wesley Darlington <wesley at blackstar.co.uk>:
>> > Why find|cpio? What's wrong with "cp -a"? (I'm just curious here,
> > mind - I'm not being antagonistic! ;-)
>> Because find & cpio are more common than 'cp -a'? At least, the cp on
> this FreeBSD box knows of no such option.
does it have:
-d, --no-dereference
preserve links
-p, --preserve
preserve file attributes if possible
-r copy recursively, non-directories as files WARNING:
use -R instead when you might copy special files
like FIFOs or /dev/zero
-R, --recursive
copy directories recursively
from man cp
-a, --archive
same as -dpR
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