Am 11. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Kevin Buettner so:
> No, but "scp -r" will. That said, there may still be reasons to prefer
> tar (with ssh) over scp. (E.g, tar may do a better job at preserving
> certain file attributes than scp -rp.)
Yup, --atime-preserve will maintain timestamps on directories. scp, cp and
cpio won't do that.
I'm not sure about rsync, but I think it won't maintain dir timestamps.
I think they all preserve file timestamps and perms just fine, though.
ciao,
der.hans
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