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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: The Visible Cat
Message-ID: <477@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 18:28:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  4 18:28:43 1985
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: cat != cp

> ... As I said, we can get rid of `cp' by using `cat to'.

Nope.  cp copies the permissions as well as the contents, if it creates
the destination file.  There's no other easy way to copy permissions.

Mark Brader