Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
> some time ago I asked about cp -a behaviour, I thought that it was ok for
> backup but...
>
> if you have two files hard-linked cp -a will copy two files not just
> one...
Doesn't appear to be true:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/scratch/a> ls -l
total 3
-rw-rw-r-- 3 joey joey 3 May 3 00:59 bar
-rw-rw-r-- 3 joey joey 3 May 3 00:59 baz
-rw-rw-r-- 3 joey joey 3 May 3 00:59 foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/scratch/a> cd ..
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/scratch> ls
a/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/scratch> cp -a a b
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/scratch> cd b
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/scratch/b> ls -l
total 3
-rw-rw-r-- 3 joey joey 3 May 3 00:59 bar
-rw-rw-r-- 3 joey joey 3 May 3 00:59 baz
-rw-rw-r-- 3 joey joey 3 May 3 00:59 foo
^
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