[rescue] Quicky Solaris Question

[Kevin Loch]

jdboyd at jdboyd.zill.net wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:13:15PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
>>On Nov 26, 2003, at 2:03 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>>
>>>what is the solaris equivelent way to do linux's cp -a, copy 
>>>recursively
>>>preserving attributes?  cp -R -p@?
>>
>># cd src
>># tar -cf - . | (cd /dest; tar -xvBpf -)
> 
> 
> Perhaps you could tell me what I'm doing wrong, please:
> 

Oh and it goest without saying that you always use GNU tar.

KL