Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:42:49 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp' Message-ID: <ealq08$m9o$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <44C82A40.3020009@centtech.com> References: <44C82A40.3020009@centtech.com>
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Eric Anderson wrote: > -a is 'archive' mode, which is just a quick form of -PpR. > -l is 'link' mode, where regular files get hard linked instead of copied. I agree with this, and while you're in there, can you add -s to copy sparse files (via the usual "if the buffer is all nulls, seek beyond eof instead of writing" trick)? I recently had to copy big sparse files and dd with conv=sparse didn't work! I managed with rsync but I feel this functionality is the domain of 'cp' (yes, like it is in Linux - please don't start bikesheading on this detail).
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