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From: ggr@hudson.UUCP (Guy Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.sources
Subject: Re: Shell script to generate shell script which recreates /dev/*
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Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 20:50:11 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 28 20:50:11 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway
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Another easy way to make copies of /dev (and subdirectories) is to
use cpio.  It knows about special files and named pipes and will
happily re-create them for you.  I have used it to quickly produce
a bunch of special files needed by our local-area network software.

			=== Guy Riddle == AT&T Bell Laboratories, New Jersey ===