Subject: Re: screwed up owner & permission
To: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>
From: Eric Hvozda - API <hvozda@ops.raynet.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/17/1995 09:52:15 
> Don't use cp use tar:
> 
> $ pwd
> /var
> $ tar cf - . | (cd /newvar ; tar xvf -)

Wouldn't you really want:

$ tar cf - . | (cd /newvar ; tar xpvf -)

to preserve permissions?