kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Kinzler) (09/26/90)
Has anyone got a tool that'll recursively copy a directory preserving
owners, modes, modification and access times, and copy symlinks, not
what they point to?
BSD 4.3 "cp -p" doesn't do owners or symlinks.
"tar xp" doesn't do access times.
GNU tar should do it all, but doesn't always work for me.
"dump | restore" works fine but is overkill and too slow for large filesystems.
Surely some sysadmin somewhere has hacked up something like this,
if necessary? I'll take patches if copyrights are a concern.
Thanks,
from the brain of Steve Kinzler /o)\ kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
an organ with a mind of its own \(o/ {ames,rutgers}!iuvax!kinzlerbruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM (Bruce Lilly) (09/28/90)
In article <60349@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Kinzler) writes: >Has anyone got a tool that'll recursively copy a directory preserving >owners, modes, modification and access times, and copy symlinks, not >what they point to? I don't know about symlinks, but cpio will handle everthing else you ask about. -- Bruce Lilly, Product Manager, | bruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM Digital Television Tape Recording, | uunet!{sonyusa,vmp}!sonyd1!bruce Sony Communications Products Co., | lilb@sony.compuserve.com (slow) Teaneck, NJ 07666 | Telephone: 1(201)833-5693 | FAX: 1(201)833-9279
prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) (09/29/90)
In a recent article bruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM (Bruce Lilly) writes: >In article <60349@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Kinzler) writes: >>Has anyone got a tool that'll recursively copy a directory preserving >>owners, modes, modification and access times, and copy symlinks, not >>what they point to? >I don't know about symlinks, but cpio will handle everthing else >you ask about. Of all the systems I've seen, all the ones that had symbolic links also had a cpio command that could handle them in the way being asked for. -- Robert Claeson |Reasonable mailers: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB | Dumb mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@sunet.se | Perverse mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@encore.com These opinions reflect my personal views and not those of my employer.