Joseph S Barrera III wrote:
>
> And lo, Eirikur Hallgrimsson saith unto us:
> > [ Extreme shell geekery. Not of any other interest. ]
> >
> > I use cp -rauvx as my fallback, but this won't copy hidden files and I've
> > not figured out a way to get cp to do that.
>
> Hidden files? In Unix? Do you mean like if you have a FAT partition mounted?
There are no 'hidden' files per se, only a convention to not show files
beginning with '.' unless requested. I use this always: "alias dir='ls
-asCF'", or a similar script.
> > I prefer to use cpbk, "backup copy" which can be found on Freshmeat.
>
> Cool, I'll take a look at it (along with rsync).
>
> > A really cute hack that I learned from a colleague on this Tru-64 adventure
> > is to run two copies of tar piped. This preserves all the file attributes,
> > dates, etc, and offers all the features of tar. I turned it into a utility
> > shell script thusly:
>
> Yep, that's definite the old school way of doing things.
> (Albeit I'm not sure -C existed in the old days.)
> But what's the tar equivalent of cp -u?
> I feel comforted when I can do that second pass and see
> no output (nothing needed to be copied).
>
> - Joe
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