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voshika

04-26-2016 06:53 AM

Copy a Folder to Another Folder and Retain its Permissions

How do I copy and paste a folder with its user permissions
(like Windows xcopy source destination /O /X /E /H /K)

Tanks
Voshika

BW-userx

04-26-2016 08:16 AM

here ya go.

Code:

sudo cp -rp /home/dirName /somewhere/else/myStuff



From cp manpage:



 -p    same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps

tshikose

04-26-2016 08:24 AM

cp -a

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