[aclug-L] Re: File too short

[Donald King <donald.king@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 08:57 am, you wrote:
> John Goerzen wrote:
> >cp /lib/libc* /foo/lib
>
> This will not work.   For each link you will get an actual file.
>
> Must be done as
>    cp -p --preserve=links /lib/libc* /foo/lib
> in order to preserve the links.
>
> Or done as  tar and then untar so ALL atributes are retained.
>

You can also use
        cp -a /lib/libc* /foo/lib

cp -a claims to just do -dpR (no dereference symlinks, preserve everything but 
hardlinks, recurse through directories), but it actually preserves hardlinks 
too.  It's very handy.

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