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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 22:47:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
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Subject: Re: copying/duplicating disks: replacing IDE with scsi
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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote:

> > -R is recursively copy, -p is preserve permissions.
> 
> So why is copying sometimes done with tar instead of cp?

Tar remembers to preserve permissions, and cp won't unless you run it with
-Rp.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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