[clue-tech] cp with hard links

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Mon Nov 24 19:44:25 MST 2008


David L. Willson wrote:
> Somewhere I heard that cp didn't support preservation of hard-links, 
> but it seems to support them fine.

I hear all kinds of things at work.  More than half are flat out wrong.
  Hence our motto, "trust but verify". ;-)

Sadly, cp's man page is deficient since it's a GNU app.  But the info
page explains it (see -d, which is a subset of -a).

Dave



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