On 04/12/2012 01:41 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 03/28/2011 10:56 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 28/03/11 21:55, Eric Blake wrote:
cp --attributes-only is great for preserving all metadata attributes
without corrupting contents, but what if I want to preserve only some of
the metadata (for
Pádraig Brady wrote:
...
So thinking a bit more about this,
and given the confusion expressed in the above bug report,
perhaps it's best to change --attributes-only to
_not_ truncate existing files?
I think scripts relying on the truncation behavior
of this relative new feature would be
On 04/12/2012 08:20 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 04/12/2012 03:04 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
...
So thinking a bit more about this,
and given the confusion expressed in the above bug report,
perhaps it's best to change --attributes-only to
_not_ truncate existing files?
I
I like this idea too. Some comments:
Preserve the specified attributes of the original files in the copy,
-but do not copy any data. See the @option{--preserve} option for
-controlling which attributes to copy.
+but do not copy any data. Data in existing destination files is not
On 04/12/2012 03:04 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Pádraig Brady wrote:
...
So thinking a bit more about this,
and given the confusion expressed in the above bug report,
perhaps it's best to change --attributes-only to
_not_ truncate existing files?
I think scripts relying on the truncation
On 04/12/2012 04:02 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
I like this idea too. Some comments:
Preserve the specified attributes of the original files in the copy,
-but do not copy any data. See the @option{--preserve} option for
-controlling which attributes to copy.
+but do not copy any data. Data
On 03/28/2011 10:56 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
On 28/03/11 21:55, Eric Blake wrote:
cp --attributes-only is great for preserving all metadata attributes
without corrupting contents, but what if I want to preserve only some of
the metadata (for example, copying SELinux context but _not_
On 28/03/11 21:55, Eric Blake wrote:
cp --attributes-only is great for preserving all metadata attributes
without corrupting contents, but what if I want to preserve only some of
the metadata (for example, copying SELinux context but _not_ timestamps
or content)? It seems like
cp --attributes-only is great for preserving all metadata attributes
without corrupting contents, but what if I want to preserve only some of
the metadata (for example, copying SELinux context but _not_ timestamps
or content)? It seems like --attributes-only would be a great synonym
for
