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authormckay <mckay@FreeBSD.org>2001-02-04 02:02:38 +0000
committermckay <mckay@FreeBSD.org>2001-02-04 02:02:38 +0000
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In the hope of saving others from hours of tedious recovery work,
document that cp still isn't very useful for recursive copies even with the -R flag. This is because hard links are broken by cp.
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diff --git a/bin/cp/cp.1 b/bin/cp/cp.1
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+++ b/bin/cp/cp.1
@@ -102,6 +102,16 @@ indirected through, and for
to create special files rather than copying them as normal files.
Created directories have the same mode as the corresponding source
directory, unmodified by the process' umask.
+.Pp
+Note that
+.Nm
+copies hard linked files as separate files.
+If you need to preserve hard links, consider using
+.Xr tar 1 ,
+.Xr cpio 1 ,
+or
+.Xr pax 1
+instead.
.It Fl f
For each existing destination pathname, remove it and
create a new file, without prompting for confirmation
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