[PLUG] Proper way to copy directories
Rich Burroughs
rich at paranoid.org
Wed Dec 22 18:44:08 UTC 2004
Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> 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.
Hey Rich, the -a option includes the -R funtionality already, you can
use just -a instead of -Ra.
Rich
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