question: copy command

[Rick Stevens]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:14:17 -0500, GoijI P <goijiud at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>please, what's best and least risky command to copy contents of directory
>>/dir to /Mydir?.
>>
> 
> 
> I don't know if it's either best or least risky, but
> 
> cp -R /dir /Mydir

or "cp -a /dir /Mydir" (preserves ownership and such)
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