SCP does not seem to preserve ownership stamps even if used with -p option.
scp -p /mysql/serv/data_summary.* some_server:/mysql/test/
The files are owned by mysql and I want the same ownership to be assigned on the destination server. I need to copy files as root on both servers due to some admin issues. I can not change to mysql@
How do you use the cp command without changing the target file's permissions? For example:
cp /tmp/file /home/file
I don't want to change chown and chgrp on /home/file.
I have a directory of many files, something like 50,000 pdf's and other files on a server. I need to move specific ones to another directory. I can generate a list of the files that need to be moved either in csv or any other text format.
What I need to do is run a bash script and move or copy the files that are listed in the text file to another directory.
Is there an easy way of doing this? Any suggestions or resources would be greatly appreciated.
Does anyone know how I would turn off the interactive mode when using cp?
I am trying to copy a directory recursively into another and for each file that is getting overwritten I have to answer 'y'.
The command I am using is:
cp -r /usr/share/drupal-update/* /usr/share/drupal
But I get asked to confirm each overwrite:
cp: overwrite `./CHANGELOG.txt'? y
cp: overwrite `./COPYRIGHT.txt'? y
cp: overwrite `./INSTALL.mysql.txt'? y
cp: overwrite `./INSTALL.pgsql.txt'? y
...
I am using ubuntu server version jaunty.
Thanks!
Is there an easy way to recursively copy all hidden files in a directory to another directory? I would like to back up just all the settings files in a home directory, not the normal files. I tried:
cp -R .* directory
but it recognizes . and .. and recursively copies all the non-hidden files too. Is there a way to get cp to ignore . and ..?