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Subject: Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'
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Eric Anderson wrote:

> I'm tired of trying to use rsync or gcp (which doesn't like symlinks 
> often) to copy trees of files/directories using hard links, so I added 
> the gcp-ish options -a and -l.
>
> -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.
>
> So, you can mimic an entire tree with something like:
>
> cp -al /from/ /to/


I've always used:
find . -depth |cpio -pdlmv $dest
(fully portable)  but your addition can't hurt (well it might make the 
larger program load a bit slower
but it isn't that much.)

>
> and it's fast too!
>
> Patch is against 6-STABLE, but works well on 7-CURRENT as well.
>
> Patch is here (with man page edits):
> http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/patches/cp-patch
>
> cd /tmp/
> fetch http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/patches/cp-patch
> cd /usr/src/
> patch < /tmp/cp-patch
> cd bin/cp
> make && make install
>
> Patch was done for rsnapshot users mainly (there are quite a few of us).
>
> Comments? Flames? Committers willing to commit?
>
> Eric
>