Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

On 7/31/06, Mike Meyer <mwm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In <96b30c400607310847s1d2f845eo212b234d03f51e9a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Juan
Rodriguez <juan.fco.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxx> typed:
> On 7/31/06, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> My GNU version of "cp" has more than 18 options, the FreeBSD
> version only has 9.

And this results in:

student% uname -a
Linux student.mired.org 2.6.12-9-386 #1 Mon Oct 10 13:14:36 BST 2005 i686
GNU/Linux
student% ls -l /bin/cp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51008 2005-09-05 05:14 /bin/cp


snake% uname -a
FreeBSD snake.mired.org 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7
04:42:56 UTC 2006 root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
snake% ls -l /bin/cp
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15300 May 6 23:56 /bin/cp


<mike
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Mike Meyer <mwm@xxxxxxxxx>
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Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.


I've just realized that the manual page of FreeBSD's "cp" warns
about hard links:

-R ...blablabla...

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.

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JFRH
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