On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:23:57PM +0100, Realos wrote: > user@labpc307:~$ cp -drp testdir/ temp/ > user@labpc307:~$ ll temp/ > drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 1024 2005-11-18 16:04 testdir > I know I could copy all files with "cp * temp" and then all > subdirectories one by one butI would prefer a single command to do > that. Any chance? user@labpc307:~$ cp -drp testdir/* temp/ -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/