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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:05:04 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp
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On Sun Jul 19 12:26:24 EDT 2009, eekee57@fastmail.fm wrote:
> I was never satisfied with dircp. It's practice of copying the contents
> of one directory into another seemed limiting at best, obstructive at
> worst. The recursive copy options of Gnu cp seemed much more elegant(!),
> preserving the usual option syntax of cp and merely extending it slightly
> to include directories.

see mkfs(8).  i keep /tmp/allproto around with the contents of '+'.
though i can't remember the last time i used it.

- erik