GNU bug report logs - #9277
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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: vesselin kavalov <vesselin_kavalov <at> yahoo.com>

Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:44:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: vesselin kavalov <vesselin_kavalov <at> yahoo.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: cp
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:40:26 -0700 (PDT)

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cp -a src/{a,b,c} dest does NOT preserve the time stamp on symbolic links.

I understand that neither does 'tar' , but that probably is a fault, not a 
feature there either.


Thanx!
vess
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