[openbeos] Re: cp -p
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 13:15:59 +0200 (MEST)
Hmmm, ok, anyway.
right there is copyattr, but sometimes you'd like cp does it also.
François.
En réponse à Peter Mogensen <apm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, 6 May 2002, François Revol wrote:
> > While I think about it, could someone fix cp (in
> applications/bin/gnu/),
> > so that the -p switch ("preserve attributes if possible"), also copies
> the
> > bfs attributes ? that would be neat.
> > (or maybe by default even ?)
>
> I remember this being discussed on bedevtalk once. The Be policy was to
>
> leave POSIX utillities to only handle POSIX stuff. You can use
> 'copyattr -d' to Be attributes. If the user thinks it's a good idea that
>
> Be-stuff should be handled too when using cp, then it should be possible
>
> to make a bash-function which use copyattr. But I think we should follow
>
> the original policy here.
>
> Peter
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