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Re: question: copy command

From: Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>
To: Mark Knecht <markknecht gmail com>, Getting started with Red Hat Linux <redhat-install-list redhat com>
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Subject: Re: question: copy command
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:22:10 -0800

Mark Knecht wrote:

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:14:17 -0500, GoijI P <goijiud hotmail com> wrote:
please, what's best and least risky command to copy contents of directory
/dir to /Mydir?.
I don't know if it's either best or least risky, but

cp -R /dir /Mydir


or "cp -a /dir /Mydir" (preserves ownership and such)
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