19 Mar
2004
19 Mar
'04
17:38
On Friday 19 March 2004 18.35, Jim Westbrook wrote:
You will probably want this instead:
cp -apr /home /data4
-a == all files
No, a stands for 'archive' and is equivalent to -dpr. -apr is therefore the same as '-dprpr' which is unnecessary. It's all in 'man cp'
-p == retain permissions -r == recursive
JimW