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From: evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Copying and preserving file info
Keywords: cpio uid mtime
Message-ID: <2357@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 14 Dec 89 17:44:47 GMT
References: <338@trux.UUCP>
Reply-To: evans@ditsyda.oz.au (Bruce Evans)
Organization: CSIRO DIT Sydney, Australia
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In article <338@trux.UUCP> car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes:
>How do I copy dir's and files (to my HD) while preserving the UID, accesses,
>mod time, etc...?
>
>cp won't do it, cpdir won't do it, tar won't do it, etc...

"cpdir -ms" will do it when run by root. Any decent tar will do it when run
by root. I think that includes the version recently posted by Klamer Schutte.
I use this little program:

#! /bin/sh
# Contents:  tarcp
# Wrapped by evans@ditsyda on Fri Dec 15 04:42:16 1989
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb ; export PATH
if test -f 'tarcp' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then 
  echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'tarcp'\"
else
echo shar: Extracting \"'tarcp'\" \(52 characters\)
sed "s/^X//" >'tarcp' <<'END_OF_FILE'
Xtarg=$1
Xshift
Xtar cf - $* | ( cd $targ; tar xvvf -)
END_OF_FILE
if test 52 -ne `wc -c <'tarcp'`; then
    echo shar: \"'tarcp'\" unpacked with wrong size!
fi
# end of 'tarcp'
fi
echo shar: End of shell archive.
exit 0
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@ditsyda.oz.au