Subject: Re: screwed up owner & permission
To: None <tomthai@future.net>
From: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 03/17/1995 08:30:59 
Don't use cp use tar:

$ pwd
/var
$ tar cf - . | (cd /newvar ; tar xvf -)

(pax and cpio also could be used, but the syntax would be different)