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Does the speed of operations on a file (copy, move, remove) depend on permissions of that file?

Does the speed of operations on a file (copy, move, remove) depend on permissions of that file? If so, then how? Reason: need to constantly perform mentioned operations on many files. Will these ...
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find -newerct filter on cp-copied files has different result compared to original files

I've migrated some 73k files from source/ to dest/ with cp -pR. Before I did that I checked with find source/ -type f -newerct $(date -d @1623247288 +"%Y-%m-%d") that I can grab new files. I ...
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cp vs. cp -r on symlinks

I recently experimented with the cp command, and noticed the following: Lets assume we have a folder foo, containing the file bar and the symbolic link l-bar: foo |-- bar |-- lbar -> bar When ...
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AIX create directory when copying

What is the best way to create a directory that does not exist when copying files in AIX? Something like this: ssh server1 'cp -R ~user1/bin/log ~user2/bin/log' cp: /u/user2/bin/log: No such file or ...
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Why is this simple bash script destroying my computer?

Something weird is happening with a seemingly inoffensive script I have. I need to copy a series of files to some locations in the system and I have the following script to do so. #!/bin/bash # Get ...
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Copying all files from a directory but not a specific file from a sub directory

I have a directory structure as below: source-dir--- |----- file-1 |----- file-2 |----- file-3 |----- folder-1 |---- file-4 ...
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Moving sparse files

cp not only auto-detects sparse files but also has --sparse=always option. I wonder if mv works with the same mechanism or the safe way for moving sparse files is cp && rm Or is there any ...
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copy files from multiple remote machines to local and create directories for remote machines

Have multiple vm machines that am using for studying, and have come up with this script for copying some files from vm's to my local machine: SG=rohos; date; for i in `cat /etc/hosts | grep "$SG-&...
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cp command doesn't overwrite, but creates new folder (second time, third, fourth, .. time it works) [duplicate]

I use the following command to copy a folder (named 'dist') containing a react project to my frontend folder: cd apps/react-app sudo cp -R dist ../server/frontend/client The first time I run the 'cp'-...
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Copy all non-text files

I need to move all files not ending with the .txt, .cpp, and .h extensions in one folder to a seperate folder via the cp command. Is there a built in way to do this or do I need to make a script?
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Copying recursively

Why is it that when using cp -r or scp -r, if say you have a folder containing a large number of files but only byte-sized or a couple of kilobytes at most and you have another file the same size as ...
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How do I duplicate file n times and then create a function in .zshrc?

This may be a duplicate of Duplicate file x times in command shell and is definitely a duplicate of How to duplicate a file a number of times while embedding an index in each file but the person who ...
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How to copy target files using symlinks and a list of file names

I would like to copy many files. I have their location as a set of symbolic links whose names are stored as lines in a txt file. So I am using cp and need to combine the readlink and cat/pipe ...
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Does cp (copy) pre-allocate space with fallocate()?

When copying large files (1-2 GB per file) between file systems, file fragmentation can happen if the destination file system is nearly full. Our C++ application code uses fallocate() to pre-allocate ...
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How to copy files with multiple extensions in a Dockerfile?

This syntax of copying files with multiple extensions (per Copying files with multiple extensions) works fine in a regular desktop environment: $ mkdir /tmp/baz && cd /tmp/baz $ touch /tmp/...
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Retaining permissions when copying a folder [duplicate]

I am having an issue where I have Parent folder that has full permissions.. I can create a new folder and that folder also has full permissions. However when I copy a folder over to this parent ...
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Copy specific file type keeping the folder structure from remote server [duplicate]

Similarly to Copy specific file type keeping the folder structure I am looking to copy over only specific file types (or files with names containing specific strings) preserving the folder structure. ...
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How can I copy multiple files inside a bash script [duplicate]

I want to know how can I copy or shell copy multiple files within a bash script. What I mean is that cp /path/to/source/{file1,file2,file3} /path/to/dest and scp /path/to/source/{file1,file2,file3} ...
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cp command based on parent directory

I have several folders within a parent folder, which all have the structure below, and am struggling to create a specific loop. parentfolder/folder01/subfolder/map.png parentfolder/folder02/subfolder/...
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find & copy command is not copying same number of files

I'm trying to use find & copy on some files but the problem is if i only run find command and check wc it shows some result, after copying these files to some other directories it shows some other ...
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copy files from the folder on one disk to the folder on another disk

how to copy files from the folder on one disk to the folder on another disk use cp command? (from the current directory on sda2 to folder on /dev/sdb3?)
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Need cp -ax alternate for Solaris

On my Linux host; this cp command helps copy files and folders both while preserving the timestamp and permissions cp -ax <source file/folder> <destination> Need similar command for SunOS ...
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Shell script on Raspberry Pi fails to copy files from usb0 to directory

I am trying to write a shell script to copy specific files from an archive USB thumb drive to my Rasberry Pi 4b. The script is, in my opinion, brain dead simple. cp /media/usb0/archive/file1.zip /home/...
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cp files with pattern with middle directory variable

I have a directory l ── 10020 │   ├── live │   │   ├── 211231.jpg │   │   ├── 211231_BB.txt │   │   ├── 448378.jpg │   │   ├── 448378_BB.txt │   │   ├── 460830.jpg │   │   └── 460830_BB.txt │   └── ...
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how does the cp - f work in Unix? [duplicate]

I was reading about the cp command in unix and one of the options is: cp -f : force copy by removing the destination file if needed so I wanted to test this to see how it works, I did the following: ...
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Using xargs to copy directories

I'm trying to write a script to copy a set of directories that were created today to another directory. I'm currently using: find /test/downloads/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime -1 -printf '%f\...
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If cp's destination path turns out to be a directory, how do I avoid mistakenly creating files inside that directory?

My understanding of cp src dest is: If src is a file and dest doesn't exist, but its parent directory does, dest is created. If src is a file and dest is a file, dest is overwritten with the contents ...
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How do I copy variously named files with the same extension to all have a standard file name?

I have variously named files such as in different subdirectories e.g.: a/apple.txt b/orange.txt c/pear.txt How do I copy them to have a uniform name (fruit.txt) in their respective directories so the ...
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Copy file in multiple (variable) folders

I want to copy files in multiple subfolders with variable subfolder names. Example: mkdir rootdir mkdir rootdir/dir1 mkdir rootdir/dir2 mkdir rootdir/dir3 touch rootdir/dir1/foo.txt touch rootdir/dir2/...
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Restore ENTIRE system ROOT / (CLARIFICATION)

I recently had to restore the disk with borg. So via live linux, I entered my disk file system, deleted everything (root /), and restored a backup of a specific date. Now I ask myself: do you need to ...
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Copy and rename files recursively using part of folder name for new name

I'm trying to recursively copy a folder of files containing .csv extensions and rename them while copying them into a single folder. I'm close except for the file renaming which eludes me. Can anyone ...
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Make sure that the "cp" command is executed properly

I make a backup copy of my files with cp command as described in this topic (Copy files in Linux, avoid the copy if files do exist in destination): https://superuser.com/a/1377730/1008457 Command is: ...
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Does the 'cp' command continue to copy all files if it has a permissions problem with one file or folder?

In OS X Mojave / bash, I am in my home directory copying all files using the cp command from the directory ~/Pictures/ to ~/Dropbox/Pictures/ and as often happens when copying without sudo on *nix, I ...
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Copying to external device messes up special characters in NixOS

I have a DAP (like an mp3 player) and I am trying to sync up the contents of one of the folders on my pc to the DAP. This does work almost as intended, but something weird is happening to the ...
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Storing find results in variable then passing to cp?

I have a need where I must work with a set of files based on time elapsed (as I do not have control over when new files are added to the remote directory). I must do several operations with this set ...
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I get this error when copying some files with rsync: "rysnc: read errors mapping “…” input/output error" - I can open and watch the file in VLC

I am using rsync to clone hundreds of video files to another hard drive. There were 3 files which had the exact error as below: rsync: read errors mapping "/var/run/importcopy/tmpdir/dev/da1s1/...
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How to copy a file and change destination file permission in one step?

I am writing a shell script to do some complex task which is repetitive in nature. To simplify the problem statement, the last step in my complex task is to copy a file from a particular path (which ...
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Can someone please explain in lay-mans terms what cp -arxpf does?

I'm inept at understanding the manual apparently. I read 'sudo cp -arxpf...' Can someone please explain to an idiot (me) what the -arxpf options do in the copying? Thanks in advance, Rob
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How do I copy a file without pasting immediately from terminal? [duplicate]

When using the command "cp", I need to know where exactly I want to paste my file. Often, I have to copy a file but without having to paste immediately or sometimes I do not know where I ...
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cp -r: trigger "No such file or directory" error instead of creating "dst"

Case 1: If dst does not exist, then cp -vr src dst creates dst and copies all the content from src to dst: $ cp -vr src dst 'src' -> 'dst' 'src/t0.c' -> 'dst/t0.c' Case 2: If dst does exist, ...
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Disc quota exceeded, cannot create, copy, or move files... is there another way?

I'm sshing into a remote server to complete some work. I tried to edit a file in nano, but realized, after saving and exiting, the file (quite a lot of work) was empty. Apparently, my disc quota has ...
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Simple cp command not working (inside shell script and submitted using sbatch on a cluster)

I am working on a cluster running RHEL and I submit jobs using the following command. sbatch MyScript.sh The content of the MyScript.sh are as below. #!/bin/sh # .... # Other SBATCH related commands ...
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Diskless root filesystem starts to break when copied to a new location

I am pxe booting using nfs to get a diskless cluster. When doing testing I wanted to make a copy of the directory used by the nodes to mount the linux root filesystem. But after copying the file over ...
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I copied a file into my VM, but the folder is a regular file

I'm new to Linux, and I'm trying to untar the following file, so I moved from GCS to the Virtual Machine with the following command gsutil cp gs://ghtorrent_datadump/mysql-2020-07-17.tar home/...
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copy a directory into another directory and create intermediate directories

I would like to copy the whole /usr/share/zoneinfo/ directory into /var/www/clients/client1/web5/./usr/share/zoneinfo/. (The /./ is added for clarity and formatting purposes) The directory /var/www/...
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Effect of 'cp /dev/zero a' when file a exists

If a exists and I type cp /dev/zero a can I be sure the old contents of a will be overwritten, or will I simply get the equivalent of rm a cp /dev/zero a PS. I am not suggesting that this is the ...
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Copy file recursively to all deepest subdirectories

I'm trying to copy a single file to all of the deepest subdirectories in a tree structure. Imagine it looks like this: bar dir1 | | | +--dir2 | | | +--dir3 | +--dir4 | | | +--...
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How can I copy directory itself with attributes?

I would like to copy only attributes of a directory to existing directory. for example... # mkdir /var/tmp/target-dir # ls -ald /var/mail drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 4月 27 2018 /var/mail my image ...
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cp copies from hard drive to USB 3.0 stick with transfer speed below 1.7MB/s!

Aspire One Cloudbook 14 (A01-431-C8G8) Linux kernel 4.19 Debian 10 Hi: I have a USB 3.0 pendrive (stick) plugged into a USB 3.0 slot in the laptop. I copied (cp) all files in one of the laptop ...
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What should 'cp -r srcpath/.. dstpath' do?

Consider the following: /tmp$ mkdir -p src/{a,b} dst/dstsub; touch src/{a,b}/hello /tmp$ tree src/ dst/ src/ ├── a │   └── hello └── b └── hello dst/ └── dstsub Now run /tmp$ cp -r src/a/.. dst/...
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