[lug] Confused about what cp -x does

[Peter Hutnick]

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Hello,

I am trying to backup my home dir before going ahead with a RH 7.2-7.3 
upgrade.  I keep most stuff on another machine that is NFS mounted at 
/home/peter/archive, but there are some things in my local home that I'd like 
to save.

So I did "cp -ax * archive/backup/." with ~ as my working directory.  Now, I'd 
think that he "x" would keep it from "looping" because it wouldn't be copying 
anything on the NFS filesystem, but that isn't what's happening; it is 
happily recursing down into archive/.

Any ideas?

- -Peter

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