Copying Files & Rsync On Linux

I ofund this article from IBM which says you can copy files and preserve their file permissions using the -p argument e.g

cp -p log.txt /

This is really handy when used with the recursive -r argument which will keep all the permissions the same in all sub directories and files.

The article also goes through how to use tar and rysnc

IBM Synchronizing UNIX files article

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