Comments on: Copy Magic Under RHEL5.1? http://pthree.org/2008/01/24/copy-magic-under-rhel51/ Linux. GNU. Freedom. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:05:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-RC1-10015 hourly 1 By: Byron Clark http://pthree.org/2008/01/24/copy-magic-under-rhel51/#comment-89633 Byron Clark Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:10:04 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=540#comment-89633 It appears that '-a' and -dpPR' are equivalent in coreutils 6.10. It appears that ‘-a’ and -dpPR’ are equivalent in coreutils 6.10.

]]> By: Byron Clark http://pthree.org/2008/01/24/copy-magic-under-rhel51/#comment-89632 Byron Clark Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:04:08 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=540#comment-89632 Looking at the cp code in ubuntu (patched coreutils 5.97) it appears that '-a' is really the same as '-dPR --preserve=links,ownership,mode,timestamps,context' I would imagine the RHEL source is similar. '--preserve=all' should give you the results you want. Looking at the cp code in ubuntu (patched coreutils 5.97) it appears that ‘-a’ is really the same as ‘-dPR –preserve=links,ownership,mode,timestamps,context’

I would imagine the RHEL source is similar. ‘–preserve=all’ should give you the results you want.

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