Jim Meyering wrote: > Please tell us what version you're using (cp --version), > as well as the precise command you ran and the output > and exit status it produced.
And also say what operating system this is (uname -a) and if possible what type of filesystem (df -T will say the filesystem type). I am wondering if a networked filesystem is involved. Patrick J Clas wrote: > The script I'm running copies many files and some of them have > permissions that prevent the preserve from working. Can you show us an example of the permissions that prevent the preserve from working? Example of a small test case: (this one is normal behavior) mkdir /tmp/mytrial cd /tmp/mytrial touch foo chmod a-rwx foo ls -ldog foo ---------- 1 0 2005-07-19 22:30 foo cp -p foo bar cp: cannot open `foo' for reading: Permission denied Thanks Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
