On Monday 17 Jun 2013 08:25:08 Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Peter Humphrey > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday 17 Jun 2013 07:00:35 Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Florian Philipp > >> <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > >> > Do you mean something like `cp --attributes-only`? > >> > > >> Nop, wouldn't do the job, because `cp --attributes-only` requires > >> > >> a target file system, ... > > > > You could always cp to /dev/null. > > Sorry I don't follow... What does imply to "cp to /dev/null", and > what would be the outcome of that?
/dev/null would be the target file system you referred to. It's a bottomless empty pit, so no physically real copy would be made. -- Peter
