[Simon]

I just noticed Leopard's cp command doesn't have the -a option that Redhat and Scientific Linux have.

Basically cp -a on these boxes is equal to cp -dpR. The Leopard cp has -pR but no -d. cp -d tells cp to not follow symlinks which is a pretty important option IMHO. Is there any way to get that option for Leopard's cp or is there a workaround?

[Thinine]

man cp?

And once you find the right flag, just setup an alias for your shell that points cp -a to whatever you need.

[CharlesS]

I'm pretty sure it defaults to not following symlinks, unless you explicitly specify the -L flag. At any rate, the man page says -P should do what you want, so there you go.

[Thinine]

Man page says symlinks aren't followed by default, so you don't need -d.

[Simon]

Nice. cp -P seems to do the trick on Leopard. Thanks.

Is there anything similar for scp? The scp man page doesn't mention anything. Any ideas?