On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > On Monday 17 Jun 2013 07:00:35 Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net> > wrote: >> > Do you mean something like `cp --attributes-only`? >> >> Nop, wouldn't do the job, because `cp --attributes-only` requires >> a target file system, ... > > > You could always cp to /dev/null.
Sorry I don't follow... What does imply to "cp to /dev/null", and what would be the outcome of that?