Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:37:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar vs cp Message-ID: <20031001133635.Q8342@njamn8or.no-ip.org> In-Reply-To: <8F2D6ACA-F44C-11D7-88BE-000A27D851E6@mac.com> References: <8F2D6ACA-F44C-11D7-88BE-000A27D851E6@mac.com>
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On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Charles Swiger wrote:
> 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...
>From the manpage:
Note that cp copies hard linked files as separate files. If you
need to preserve hard links, consider using tar(1), cpio(1), or
pax(1) instead.
Cheers,
Viktor
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