On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Lynn David Newton wrote:
> Does anyonw have any particular insight into the
> advangages/disadvantages of using cp -R versus cpio?
cpio is useful because it can be piped over a ssh connection.
I also like -d (--make-directories) for creating leading directories as
needed.
As for access time, GNU cpio 2.5 has:
-a, --reset-access-time
Reset the access times of files after reading them, so that it
does not look like they have just been read.
Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
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