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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>> > Recursive cp?  (The intuitive, simple, *man page recommended* way to copy
>> > a directory from one hard disk to another?) 
>> 
>> Then the man page needs to be fixed to recommend something that actually
>> works correctly.
>
>It seems counter-intuitive that the copy utility with the recursive flag
>be the incorrect way to recursively copy :-).

cp -pR (and thus mv across file systems) are broken (non-POSIX.2
conformant).  They snap hard links and don't preserve directory timestamps.

Bruce


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