On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Felix Deichmann wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: >> tar handles symbolic links properly, whereas cp will "copy through" >> the contents of the link. > > Also true for cp -R? :-) No, but not all systems have "cp -R", although FreeBSD does. Likewise for the "-p" or "--preserve-permissions" option... -- -Chuck