[PLUG] Proper way to copy directories

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Richard C. Steffens wrote:

> cp -r -p all /home/rsteff /home2

Dick,

   What I've done is:

 	cp -Ra /home/rsteff/* /home2

Lowercase 'r' is usually a synonym for uppercase 'R'. The 'a' is for
archive:

        -a, --archive
               Preserve as much as possible of the  structure  and
               attributes  of  the original files in the copy (but
               do not preserve directory  structure).   Equivalent
               to -dpPR.

HTH,

Rich

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