Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system

From: Don Lewis <truckman_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:48:30 -0800 (PST)
On 30 Mar, Stephen McKay wrote:

> PPS Who's for adding a "cp -h" option to copy preserving hard links?

Sounds good to me.

BTW, I've always liked the GNU cp "-a" option, though I seem to recall
that it has the possible misfeature of attempting to preserve the file
ownership.  This can be inconvenient when run by root if the system
allows users to give file ownership away.
Received on Wed Mar 30 2005 - 16:49:20 UTC

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