On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:26:15PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Patrick M wrote: > > > Is there a reason for using 'tar' instead of 'cp'? > > It preserves ownership and symbolic links, for one thing (or 2).
The GNU cp command does those... "cp -a". Other "cp" variants maybe don't... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
