Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 20:51:13 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp' Message-ID: <44C83831.5050900@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <44C82A40.3020009@centtech.com> References: <44C82A40.3020009@centtech.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?44C83831.5050900>