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  From: David Fitch <davidf@parachilna.com>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:53:00 +0930

Re: Replacing a dying HDD

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:50:10AM +0930, Toby Corkindale wrote:
> I think you needed an option to cp to tell it not to dereference symlinks
> though?

yeah but '-a' includes that option.
'-a' (meaning archive) expands to '-dpR', from the man page
(ie. preseve links, preserve filesystem attributes, copy recursively -
'R' rather than 'r' handles special files as well (fifos, /dev/zero etc))

Dave.

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