From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!kiessig
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.news
Title: Re: squish
Article-I.D.: fortune.709
Posted: Mon Dec 27 20:49:56 1982
Received: Wed Dec 29 01:39:11 1982
References: linus.950

	I, too, don't understand all this fuss about a squish program.
Recursive cp will do the trick very nicely, as follows:

cd dir_to_squish/..
mkdir temp_dir
cp -rl dir_to_squish/. temp_dir
rm -rf dir_to_squish
mv temp_dir dir_to_squish

	The "-rl" in cp says to copy r-ecursively, l-inking as you go
(as opposed to copying).  This preserves modes, owners, s-u/g-id bits,
etc.  About all that gets messed up is file "ctime"s.

Rick Kiessig
{sri-unix,harpo,megatest,dsd}!fortune!kiessig

P.S. Oops - you will have to change the mode and owner of temp_dir
     to be that of dir_to_squish (before or after the "mv").