z/OS V1R9.0 UNIX System Services Command ... - Christian Grothoff

Options
blanks in your output are read back as blanks, and any empty (zero-length) records
are ignored on input. However, if the environment variable _EDC_ZERO_RECLEN
is set to Y before calling cp, an empty record is treated as a single newline and is
not ignored. Also, if _EDC_ZERO_RECLEN is set to Y, a single newline is written to
the file as an empty record, and a single blank will be represented by ″ \n″.
You can copy:
v One file to another file in the working directory
v One file to a new file on another directory
v A set of directories and files to another place in your file system
v A UNIX file to an MVS data set
v An MVS data set to a filesystem
v An MVS data set to an MVS data set
–A Specifies that all suffixes (from the first period till the end of the target) be
truncated. –A has precedence over –M and –C options. –S will be turned
off if –A is the last option specified.
–B Specifies that the data to be copied contains binary data. When you specify
–B, cp operates without any consideration for characters or
special characteristics of DBCS data. (This type of behavior is typical when
copying across a UNIX system.) Because –B is mutually exclusive with –F,
–X, and –T, you will get an error if you specify more than one of these
options.
–C Specifies truncating the filename to 8 characters to meet the restriction in
the MVS data set member.
–c (UNIX to UNIX only)
Prompts you to change the diskette if there is not enough room to complete
a copy operation. This option has no effect on systems without floppy
drives.
Note:
Rule: The parent directories must already exist on the new target diskette.
–F format
Specifies if a file is binary or text and for text files, specifies the end-of-line
delimiter. Also sets the file format to format if the target is a UNIX file. For
text files, when copying from UNIX to MVS, the end-of-line delimiter will be
stripped. When copying from MVS to UNIX, the end-of-line delimiter will be
added (Code page IBM-1047 will be used to check for end-of-line
delimiters.)
If setting format fails, a warning will be displayed. However, cp will continue
to copy any remaining files specified to be copied.
–F is mutually exclusive with –B, –X, –p, and –T. If you specify one of
these options with –F, you will get an error. If –F is specified more than
once, the last –F specified will be used.
For format you can specify:
not not specified
bin binary data
Or the following text data delimiters:
nl newline
cp
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