Didn't anyone get my previous reply on this.
I'm wondering about my email server now.
Anyway in summary what I said was the
3 commands you presented would perform about the same.
Things to consider.
The deletion/truncation bit will proceed more quickly on some
file system types.
If both files
Proulx [mailto:b...@proulx.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 12:45 PM
To: Hemant Rumde
Cc: coreutils@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [coreutils] RE: cp command performance
Hemant Rumde wrote:
Lets discuss on cp A1 A1.bk. Correct me if I am wrong.
In this cp, OS needs to cache all A1.bk data blocks
