Patrick J Clas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the timestamps of files with the -p flag. The script I'm running copies > many files and some of them have permissions that prevent the preserve > from working. The problem is that cp returns 1 for this failure and I > fail even though it's an acceptable condition. I guess I'd like to see cp > return a different return code so I didn't have to parse the string output > of the command, or perhaps an additional flag that says we don't care if > the preserve fails. I do care about severe errors like the copy failing > completely, but if the preserve fails, the copy still could've succeeded.
Have you tried options like --no-preserve=ownership or --no-preserve=mode ? _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
