Re: cp, but preserve the dest attribute

2012-11-20 Thread Urs Thuermann
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com writes: cp -a, or rsync -a, or cpio normally preserve the source attribute and set the destination attribute accordingly. Now my question is, is there any way for me to preserve the destination attribute and disregard the source attribute. Any way to make it

Re: cp, but preserve the dest attribute

2012-11-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-11-18 02:52 +0100, T o n g wrote: cp -a, or rsync -a, or cpio normally preserve the source attribute and set the destination attribute accordingly. Now my question is, is there any way for me to preserve the destination attribute and disregard the source attribute. Any way to make

cp, but preserve the dest attribute

2012-11-17 Thread T o n g
Hi, cp -a, or rsync -a, or cpio normally preserve the source attribute and set the destination attribute accordingly. Now my question is, is there any way for me to preserve the destination attribute and disregard the source attribute. Any way to make it possible, cp/rsync/cpio or something