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Re: cp command
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: cp command |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:24:01 +0200 |
Patrick J Clas <address@hidden> wrote:
> the timestamps of files with the -p flag. The script I'm running copies
> many files and some of them have permissions that prevent the preserve
> from working. The problem is that cp returns 1 for this failure and I
> fail even though it's an acceptable condition. I guess I'd like to see cp
> return a different return code so I didn't have to parse the string output
> of the command, or perhaps an additional flag that says we don't care if
> the preserve fails. I do care about severe errors like the copy failing
> completely, but if the preserve fails, the copy still could've succeeded.
Have you tried options like --no-preserve=ownership
or --no-preserve=mode ?
Re: cp command, Philip Rowlands, 2005/07/19