[lug] Confused about what cp -x does

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 01:02:14PM -0600, Peter Hutnick wrote:
>Is it possible that this is NFS related?  I have used the option before and 
>gotten the results I expected, but only with local filesystems.

It *SHOULD* work on any mounted file-system, because the file-system ID
changes (see the results from "stat" on the different directories,
particularly the "Device" field).

It seems like it's broken for you, though.  Try using rsync with
"--exclude" to list the directory explicitly.

Sean
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