Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 16:19:28 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Felix Deichmann <f.dei@web.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar vs cp Message-ID: <8F2D6ACA-F44C-11D7-88BE-000A27D851E6@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <3F7B3308.4050807@web.de>
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On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Felix Deichmann wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: >> tar handles symbolic links properly, whereas cp will "copy through" >> the contents of the link. > > Also true for cp -R? :-) No, but not all systems have "cp -R", although FreeBSD does. Likewise for the "-p" or "--preserve-permissions" option... -- -Chuck
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