Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxt!marcus From: marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: tar Vs cpio Message-ID: <168@pyuxt.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 20:10:56 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxt.168 Posted: Tue Aug 14 20:10:56 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Aug-84 02:00:56 EDT References: <43800016@hpfcla.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 8 I've always found cpio quite adequate and usable, except for one thing: I want a -U option which would UNCONDITIONALLY copy files over existing ones whose permissions were, eg 444. Of course, it should still obey the other rules about ownership (ie it would overwrite those files which would be deleted by rm -f). This would save a lot of hassle. Marcus Hand (pyuxt!marcus)