In message <69F0D316-DB61-11D6-A81D-000393970B96 at neurotica.com> so spake Dave McGuire (mcguire): > You really want to use a tar pipeline for stuff like that > anyway...much safer than cp. > > # cd <src> > # tar -cf - . | (cd /<dest>; tar -xvBpf -) Or, since this is BSD, you should be able to use pax: # cd <src> # pax -rw -pe . /<dest> - todd