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From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Berkley-isms (was: Why no job control in 386/ix)
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Date: 20 Nov 89 18:18:32 GMT
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Kemp@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:



>Just for the record, is there *any* way to do a recursive copy
>correctly?  I.e.  one that doesn't:

> * turn symbolic links into actual files
> * turn link loops into a series of infinitely nested copies
> * alter the modify and change times
> * choke on block and character special files
> * turn holes in sparse files into real disk blocks

I think afio will do this. I am not sure about the symlink
stuff, though, as we're a SYS V only site.
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