"Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams@mbs.valinet.com> écrit:

Shows that there's more than one way to skin a cat <groan>.

I've read the following, somewhere. An old Unixer was chatting with an adolescent about their working habits. The youth was explaining how it could not imagine working without the mouse, and qualified himself as a mouse-type. The Unixer replied that himself was more of a cat-type! :-)

- cp copies a set of files from one place to another but does not in any way modify them in transit.

For the record, GNU `cp' did not always copy a file without modification. There was a time it was automatically sparsifying files (that is, replacing long sequences of zeroes by "holes"). According to current documentation, it does not do that anymore, unless the original file is already sparse, or `--sparse=always' is used. I would guess that sparsification is never done when the output is a device. (Jim, if easy, would you confirm?) -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/