<<On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:39:22 +1000, Stephen McKay <smckay_at_internode.on.net> said: > Tar is indeed a most excellent program for copying directory trees, since > even in this modern century cp fails to correctly handle hard links. Sigh. I believe the record will show that `cp' handles hard links correctly according to the specification; that's simply not the behavior you want. (In POSIX one would use `pax -rw' for that.) -GAWollmanReceived on Wed Mar 30 2005 - 12:49:03 UTC
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