No, but I did try --preserve=timstamps which I would assume has the same result. And that says that it preserves the listed attributes if possible, which would imply to me that it wouldn't return a failure if it wasn't possible.
Patrick J. Clas - Software Engineer - zSeries IBM, Endicott Phone: (607) 429-4425 T/L 620-4425 Office: 256-3 X007 Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/19/2005 04:24 PM To Patrick J Clas/Endicott/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc [email protected] Subject Re: cp command 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
