Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:26:39 +0200 From: "Juan Rodriguez" <juan.fco.rodriguez@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp' Message-ID: <96b30c400607310926g76213454l73a51f2d50251cf9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17614.10982.499561.139268@bhuda.mired.org> References: <200607271150.k6RBoM9p031745@lurza.secnetix.de> <44C8FB65.9020102@FreeBSD.org> <44CE03D2.2050803@centtech.com> <17614.4005.407223.621637@bhuda.mired.org> <44CE199C.2020500@centtech.com> <17614.8289.134373.387558@bhuda.mired.org> <96b30c400607310847s1d2f845eo212b234d03f51e9a@mail.gmail.com> <17614.10982.499561.139268@bhuda.mired.org>
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On 7/31/06, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote: > > In <96b30c400607310847s1d2f845eo212b234d03f51e9a@mail.gmail.com>, Juan > Rodriguez <juan.fco.rodriguez@gmail.com> typed: > > On 7/31/06, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> > wrote: > > My GNU version of "cp" has more than 18 options, the FreeBSD > > version only has 9. > > And this results in: > > student% uname -a > Linux student.mired.org 2.6.12-9-386 #1 Mon Oct 10 13:14:36 BST 2005 i686 > GNU/Linux > student% ls -l /bin/cp > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51008 2005-09-05 05:14 /bin/cp > > > snake% uname -a > FreeBSD snake.mired.org 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 > 04:42:56 UTC 2006 root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu > :/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 > snake% ls -l /bin/cp > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15300 May 6 23:56 /bin/cp > > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> > http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. > I've just realized that the manual page of FreeBSD's "cp" warns about hard links: -R ...blablabla... Note that cp copies hard linked files as separate files. If you need to preserve hard links, consider using tar(1), cpio(1), or pax(1) instead. -- JFRH
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