Flat Earth Catalogue

2023-08-18

handy cp options

 cp -ur --preserve=timestamps ./* /somewhere/else/

-u is for update, it only copies if the local one is newer than the one somewhere else

-r is for recursive, into subdirectories

-p preserves mode, owner, and timestamps, but in my case I'm copying to drive-fs so I don't want to dick up its mode. Not sure if preserving owner also preserves group, but I don't want to dick that up either.

There are other neato options like hardlinking or symlinking which would be applicable if not crossing filesystem boundaries.

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