[gentoo-user] Re: copy file and preserve ownership

[Jouni Kosonen]

Joseph wrote:

> I like to use meld to copy file but meld does now preserve ownership of
> the file that it copy. rsyc does but how do I use rysnc to copy let say
> file that are newer then certain date ?
>
> I was trying to use:
> find /home/myuser/oldir/* -mtime -60 -exec cp {} /home/myuser/newdir/ \;
>
> but cp does not preserve file ownership either.
>
> I was planning on copying hylafax-files (faxes) from one server to another
> and most of those files have ownership "uucp:60002 or "uucp:uucp"
>

From "man cp":
...

       -p     same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps

       --preserve[=ATTR_LIST]
              preserve the specified attributes (default: mode,ownership,
              timestamps), if possible additional attributes: context, 
              links, xattr, all


Might I suggest a pattern here? ;-)
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Jouni