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From: "Otter" <otterr@telocity.com>
To: "Sriranga Veeraraghavan" <ranga@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>,
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Subject: RE: how to copy directory and contents? 
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:44:21 -0400
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}-----Original Message-----
}From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
}[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Sriranga
}Veeraraghavan
}Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 6:00 PM
}To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
}Subject: Re: how to copy directory and contents?
}
}
}
}> How do you copy a directory? I have used cp to copy files, but I am
}> not sure about copying a directory and all the files within.
}
}I find that cpio is the prefered way to do this (several others have
}mentioned tar):
}
}$ cd <src> && find . -depth -print | cpio -pvd <dest>
}
}----ranga
}
cp -R has always worked for me.
-Otter



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