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- NAME
- cp - copy files
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- SYNOPSIS
- cp [options] source dest
- cp [options] source... directory
- Options:
- [-abdfilprsuvxPR] [-S backup-suffix] [-V {num-
- bered,existing,simple}] [--backup] [--no-dereference]
- [--force] [--interactive] [--one-file-system] [--preserve]
- [--recursive] [--update] [--verbose] [--suffix=backup-
- suffix] [--version-control={numbered,existing,simple}]
- [--archive] [--path] [--link] [--symbolic-link] [--help]
- [--version]
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- DESCRIPTION
- This manual page documents the GNU version of cp. If the
- last argument names an existing directory, cp copies each
- other given file into a file with the same name in that
- directory. Otherwise, if only two files are given, it
- copies the first onto the second. It is an error if the
- last argument is not a directory and more than two files
- are given. By default, it does not copy directories.
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- OPTIONS
- -a, --archive
- Preserve as much as possible of the structure and
- attributes of the original files in the copy. The
- same as -dpR.
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- -b, --backup
- Make backups of files that are about to be over-
- written or removed.
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- -d, --no-dereference
- Copy symbolic links as symbolic links rather than
- copying the files that they point to, and preserve
- hard link relationships between source files in the
- copies.
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- -f, --force
- Remove existing destination files.
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- -i, --interactive
- Prompt whether to overwrite existing regular desti-
- nation files.
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- -l, --link
- Make hard links instead of copies of non-
- directories.
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- -P, --path
- Form the pathname of each destination file by
- appending to the target directory a slash and the
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- pathname of the source file. The last argument
- given to cp must be the name of an existing direc-
- tory. For example, the command `cp --path a/b/c
- existing_dir' copies the file a/b/c to exist-
- ing_dir/a/b/c, creating any missing intermediate
- directories.
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- -p, --preserve
- Preserve the original files' owner, group, permis-
- sions, and timestamps.
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- -r Copy directories recursively, copying all non-
- directories as if they were regular files.
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- -s, --symbolic-link
- Make symbolic links instead of copies of non-
- directories. All source files must be absolute
- pathnames (starting with `/') unless the destina-
- tion files are in the current directory. This
- option produces an error message on systems that do
- not support symbolic links.
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- -u, --update
- Do not copy a nondirectory that has an existing
- destination with the same or newer modification
- time.
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- -v, --verbose
- Print the name of each file before copying it.
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- -x, --one-file-system
- Skip subdirectories that are on different filesys-
- tems from the one that the copy started on.
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- -R, --recursive
- Copy directories recursively.
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- --help Print a usage message and exit with a non-zero sta-
- tus.
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- --version
- Print version information on standard error then
- exit.
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- -S, --suffix backup-suffix
- The suffix used for making simple backup files can
- be set with the SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX environment
- variable, which can be overridden by this option.
- If neither of those is given, the default is `~',
- as it is in Emacs.
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- -V, --version-control {numbered,existing,simple}
- The type of backups made can be set with the VER-
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- backup type is `existing'. The value of the VER-
- SION_CONTROL environment variable and the argument
- to this option are like the GNU Emacs `version-
- control' variable; they also recognize synonyms
- that are more descriptive. The valid values are
- (unique abbreviations are accepted):
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- `t' or `numbered'
- Always make numbered backups.
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- `nil' or `existing'
- Make numbered backups of files that already
- have them, simple backups of the others.
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- Always make simple backups.
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