Unix Tip: COPY A TREE WITH CPIO

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Unix Tip 3256 - January 8, 2012

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COPY A TREE WITH CPIO

Using standard UNIX tar to copy a
tree doesn't preserve the original
owner and group information for the
directories and files during the copy.
To do this, use find(1) piped to cpio(1)
this way:

% cd <source-directory>
% find . -depth -print | cpio -pudm <dest-directory>

This will create a mirror image of the
<source-directory> tree in <dest-directory>.

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