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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: tar fs copy
Message-ID: <136@desint.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 20:25:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 30 20:25:07 1985
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Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
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In article <169@daab.UUCP> lasse@daab.UUCP (Lars Hammarstrand) writes:

>Why doesn't anybody write a GOOD AND PORTABLE cptree(1) with some flags
>like this....	(It shall manage to copy special files too)

[list of features follows]

AT&T did, a while ago.  It's called cpio.  Most of your suggested features
are supported directly;  the rest are easy with 'find' and 'comm' pipes.
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	{hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff