Re: copying a file with appropriate permission

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel Infinity-ltd com>]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 muthupandi radisoft com wrote:

> how to copy a file with appropriate permission in linux. instead of move.
>
> my problem is i want to copy all the users
> mails(var/spool/mail/*)into a new hdd. if i cp the files it is
> changing the permission to root. i don't want to mv.
>
> thanks,
> Muthupandi
>
>
Try cp -a instead of cd.  Or try rsync -a.

Mikkel
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