From: David Kirkby on
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
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Thank you Casper.

I was not aware of that. It seems it is also possible to copy using
tar on the same machine

Dave