26 Aug
1997
26 Aug
'97
11:26 p.m.
On 08/26/97 15:35:53 you wrote:
Unfortunately there is no magic way, so you simply have to use your favorite copy command.
The "cp" command does scary things with symlinks and device drivers, so "tar | tar" like you've done, or "find | cpio -pdmv" are better.
Yeah, tar has bugs in differnet versions... and cp is just bad. I prefer "find . -print | cpio -pdumv /path/to/newdir" myself. However, long filenames with spaces in it can break this too. :) Gotta write a fancy shell-script wrapper or something...
Bruce