equivalent to linux cp -al

[Ben House]

What about cpio?  cpio -dplm should do what you need it to.

This operates in pass-through to give you a recreation of the directories
rather than an archive.  Input is from standard i/p.

HTH.

BH

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:14 AM
To: Matias Surdi
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: equivalent to linux cp -al


Matias Surdi wrote:
> I've a script on a linux box wich makes backups, it uses the "cp -al"
> command to make hard links and preserve atributes.
>
> Is there an equivalent on FreeBSD?

"cp -p" comes reasonably close, but will duplicate files rather than
creating
hard links.  If you need to preserve hard links, consider using tar or maybe
rsync to do the copying instead.

--
-Chuck
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