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From: David Kirkby on 31 Dec 2009 10:38 On Dec 24, 11:10 am, Casper H.S. Dik <Casper....(a)Sun.COM> wrote: > David Kirkby <drkir...(a)gmail.com> writes: > >Semi-related to this, I do need to find a way of copying files and > >preserving links, like the '-a' option does on GNU 'cp'. I think > >creating a tar archive and then extracting it might be one way, but > >I'd like to avoid the need to create an intermediate file if > >possible. > > cpio? > > cpio -pmvd < list-of-files > > across the network, use cpio -o | cpio -i > > Casper > -- > Expressed in this posting are my opinions. They are in no way related > to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems. > Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may > be fiction rather than truth. Thank you Casper. I was not aware of that. It seems it is also possible to copy using tar on the same machine Dave |