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prompts you to change the diskette if there is insufficient room to complete a copy operation.
The parent directories must already exist on the new target diskette. This option has no
effect on systems without floppy drives.
attempts to replace files that do not have write permission.
asks you if you want to overwrite an existing file, whether or not the file is read-only.
sets the modification time, access time, and file mode (see chmod) of each destination file to
those of the corresponding source file. The compression and archive bits of the file mode
are handled separately. The compression bit for each destination file is always unset, while
the archive bit is always set.
prevents the -m and -p options from copying the file mode (see chmod). This option always
sets the archive bit on the copied file.
The behavior of this option is identical to setting the TK_CP_NOPRESERVE environment
variable.
is similar to the -m option, but also sets the owner and group of each destination file to the
owner and group of the corresponding source file. Unlike the -m option, the archive bit of all
destination files is always unset.
reproduces the source trees. cp copies all files and subdirectories specified by source....
into directory, making careful arrangements to duplicate special files (FIFO, block special,
character special).
reproduces the source trees, but makes no allowances for special files (FIFO, block special,
character special). Consequently, cp attempts to read from a device rather than duplicate
the special file. This is similar to, but less useful than, the preferred -R.
automatically expands sparse files. This lets you make a non-sparse copy of a sparse file.
prints file names to standard output as they are being processed.
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