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Re: Copy entire contents of a directory and preserve permissions

Telmerobert — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 04:40:25 -0000

I have a windows 2008 server machine i accessed my solaris machine using telnet .
i would like to copy or transfer some of files from windows server 2008 machine please help me.

Re: Copy entire contents of a directory and preserve permissions

shreyash — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:57:46 -0000

nice work dude......i like all solaris recipes.......i appreciate ur work......

Re: Copy entire contents of a directory and preserve permissions

trwww — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:20:14 -0000

Your command copy / pastes from FF 3.5 to MindTerm on windows XP as:

cd dir1 && tar -cf ? . | (cd dir2 && tar -xpvf -)

Note the ? instead of the -

I was in my user's home directory at the time so its all gone now! Whee!

Re: Copy entire contents of a directory and preserve permissions

joppe Koning — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 01:54:08 -0000

cp uses a caracter for caracter copy method. copying with tar is faster because is uses greater buffers

Re: Copy entire contents of a directory and preserve permissions

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 04:18:50 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>flarg wrote:</h6>In addition, I think you meant 'cp -a', which is equivilant to 'cp -dpR'. The -d flag will dereference symbolic links.

'cp -Rp dir1 dir2' doesn't preserve symlinks. It will instead copy the contents of the target:

If dir1 looks like this:

-rw-r--r-- 1 flarg group 0 Aug 17 14:59 file1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 flarg group 4 Aug 17 14:59 link1 -> /tmp

If you use 'cp -Rp', then 'link1' will become a directory:

cp -Rp dir1 dir2 -rw-r--r-- 1 flarg group 0 Aug 17 14:59 file1 drwxrwxrwx 7 flarg groupl 1701 Aug 17 14:59 link1

You really want the '-d' flag to dereference any symbolic links.</ul>

Re: Copy entire contents of a directory and preserve permissions

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:13:10 -0000

In addition, I think you meant 'cp -a', which is equivilant to 'cp -dpR'. The -d flag will dereference symbolic links.

'cp -Rp dir1 dir2' doesn't preserve symlinks. It will instead copy the contents of the target:

If dir1 looks like this:

-rw-r--r-- 1 flarg group 0 Aug 17 14:59 file1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 flarg group 4 Aug 17 14:59 link1 -> /tmp

If you use 'cp -Rp', then 'link1' will become a directory:

cp -Rp dir1 dir2 -rw-r--r-- 1 flarg group 0 Aug 17 14:59 file1 drwxrwxrwx 7 flarg groupl 1701 Aug 17 14:59 link1

You really want the '-d' flag to dereference any symbolic links.

Re: Copy entire contents of a directory and preserve permissions

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:34:09 -0000

'cp -Rp' is not supported on most Unixes. '-Rp' flags are only supported by the version of 'ls' that comes with the GNU Core-utils, which is not installed everywhere.

The tar command will work on all versions of Unix.

Re: Copy entire contents of a directory and preserve permissions

fall-line — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 05:43:39 -0000

what's wrong with cp -Rp dir1 dir2 ?