[Gllug] File permissions

[Gordon Joly]

At 16:41 +0100 2001-09-08, Dylan wrote:
>Hi
>
>How do I copy or move a directory as root, without the new direcory and files
>changing permissions and gaining root as owner and group?
>
>Cheers
>
>Dylan
>


I tend to use tar(1); something like

tar cvf - WHATEVERFILES/DIRSYOUWANT | ( cd NEWPLACE ; tar xf -)

I think this example is in the manual page.

e.g.

cd startdir;
tar cvf - index.html docs/* | ( cd wwwroot ; tar xf -)


Gordo

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