Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:02:32 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Copying a directory hierarchy Message-ID: <1103680952.33623.2.camel@chaucer>
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How does on copy a complete directory hierarchy, including any hidden files? "cp -rp" leaves them out. Some versions of cp seem to have a '-a' flag which will make it copy them, but it isn't available in the FreeBSD version. Is there a trick, or something obvious I have missed?
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