I was trying to update a copy of /var (=>/root2/var).
It issues non-fatal, failure messages when copying from or to
a non-dir entry to a dir entry.
I tried -a to force the removal of the target dir, or target file.
It didn't work.
I tried --remove-destination, which is clearly not "file" speci
On 10/27/2013 03:48 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> I was trying to update a copy of /var (=>/root2/var).
> It issues non-fatal, failure messages when copying from or to
> a non-dir entry to a dir entry.
>
> I tried -a to force the removal of the target dir, or target file.
>
> It didn't work.
>
> I
On 10/27/2013 5:38 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
So overwriting files with dirs and vice versa
is prohibited by POSIX. The existing cp options
do not adjust this aspect. If you don't care what's
in the destination at all, why not just rm it before the copy?
Um --- isn't that what the "--remove-d
Hi Linda,
On 10/28/2013 08:09 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> On 10/27/2013 5:38 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> So overwriting files with dirs and vice versa
>> is prohibited by POSIX. The existing cp options
>> do not adjust this aspect. If you don't care what's
>> in the destination at all, why not just
On 10/28/2013 1:56 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
If you don't care what's in the destination at all,
why not just rm it before the copy?
"--remove-destination" option is supposed to do?
"info coreutils 'cp invocation'" says:
But if I specify "-a" or "-r" those imply recursive. Why
> On October 28, 2013 at 11:05 PM Linda Walsh wrote:
> On 10/28/2013 1:56 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> [...] Tools like rsync may be better for such a scenario
>> than cp(1) which is made primarily to
> [...] As for 'rsync', it's speed is *comparatively* abysmal
> for local-to-local copies.
* Bernhard Voelker (m...@bernhard-voelker.de) [20131029 12:26]:
> hmm, well, could it be that this is because many features have
> been added over the years? ...
Leave alone checks that cp needs to do but dd doesn't.
Philipp
So why not enhance rsync regarding performance?
It's designed for slow, remote copies. It special-cases local copies, but
uses much of the of the old code. It also follows it's
manpage. It also does id translation and storage of ACL's and
Xattrs on file systems that don't support it.
severity 15727 wishlist
retitle 15727 doc: cp: expand dirs-vs-files with -f/--remove-dest
stop
Hello,
On 2013-10-29 12:20 p.m., Linda Walsh wrote:
[...]
You need to make the docs much more clear about "cp"s limitations.
update isn't eally update, and -T is certainly wrong at the very
least.
