[rescue] Quicky Solaris Question

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:27:40PM -0500, jdboyd at jdboyd.zill.net wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:24:44PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:03:42PM -0600, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> > > what is the solaris equivelent way to do linux's cp -a, copy recursively 
> > > preserving attributes?  cp -R -p@?
> > 
> > 
> > Per cp.1,
> > 
> > $ cp -a foo bar
> > 
> > is equivalent to
> > 
> > $ cp -pdR foo bar
> > 
> > which in turn is equivalent to
> > 
> > $ cp --no-dereference --preserve=all --recursive foo bar
> 
> That looks like you are telling me how to do it on linux.  I already know how 
> to do that.


No, what I'm telling you is what combinations of switches on a non-GNU
cp are equivalent to GNU cp's -a switch.


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