> Oops. Another gotcha. Is there a flag to cp to preserve links as > links? -a > The disadvantage of making a beeg tarfile is that it will take > up a lot of room, so you need to have 3x(distribution size) available to > do it that way. Just use a pipe: ( cd oldir ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd newdir ; tar xvf - ) David -- David Engel Optical Data Systems, Inc. david@ods.com 1101 E. Arapaho Road (214) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081