Comments on: Copying a directory tree in Unix or Linux http://www.tipsandscripts.net/archives/6 Various things I've found useful in my travels Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:38:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew S http://www.tipsandscripts.net/archives/6/comment-page-1#comment-4 Andrew S Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:40:05 +0000 http://www.tipsandscripts.net/archives/6#comment-4 Depending on the OS and circumstances I tend to use either cpio: sudo find /home/fred | sudo cpio -pmduV /d02/home or rsync: sudo rsync -vaPHx /home/fred /d02/home/ The latter will preserve hardlinks. Depending on the OS and circumstances I tend to use either cpio:

sudo find /home/fred | sudo cpio -pmduV /d02/home

or rsync:

sudo rsync -vaPHx /home/fred /d02/home/

The latter will preserve hardlinks.

]]> By: Andrew S http://www.tipsandscripts.net/archives/6/comment-page-1#comment-3 Andrew S Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:37:52 +0000 http://www.tipsandscripts.net/archives/6#comment-3 "Note also that the source directory could be the current directory." The results from doing this could be interesting... “Note also that the source directory could be the current directory.”

The results from doing this could be interesting…

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