[Chicago-talk] Merging two dir's into a third

[Steven Lembark]

-- Mike Pastore <mike at oobak.org>

> Am I missing something??
>
> 	$ mkdir -p dira/apple dirb/apple dirc
> 	$ touch dira/apple/this.txt dirb/apple/that.txt
> 	$ cp -r dira/* dirb/* dirc/
> 	$ ls dirc/apple/
> 	that.txt  this.txt

cp -r looses ctime, mtime (reset due to new file). Might
also loose ownership (unless you own the originals) and
mods (uses umask by default).


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