chgrp not permitted?

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On Thursday 11 September 2008 17:03:08 Robert Holtzman wrote:
> cp -preserve=mode,ownership,group,timestamp test1 /media/disk gives
>
> "cp: invalid option -- e"
>
> I have to be doing something wrong but I'm not sure what. Google and
> Ubuntu forums were no help but I may be searching on the wrong terms.
>
> Any help appreciated. Thanks.

Shouldn't that be cp --preserve=... ?

If you used just 1 - it recognizes the p and r as options, but -e is not an 
option for cp so it gives that error.