Re: cp -l

From: Chris Gerhard (Chris.Gerhard_at_remove_this.sun.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:00:45 +0000

David Obando wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for the pendant to the linux command "cp -l" ( link files
> instead of copying). My Solaris-cp doesn't support that option. How can
> I make hardlink-copies?

cpio(1) will do this.

Or if you have gcp installed (/opt/sfw/bin/gcp) that is the command you
want. It is not the linux cp that does this, it is gnu cp, which most
(all) linux distros use.

--chris

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