I you use cpio, symbolic links and empty dirs can be copied. Strangely, as I recall, sometimes cp -r and rcp -r use cpio, and cp -rp says it will preserve links. Breaking the compression out from the ssh2 allows more CPUs to be utilized pipeline parallel.
Hi DGPickett,
I have tried the code but didnt work, actually ssh part does not work, i had a different error when i tried ssh (rather than ssh2 as its not supported)
Hi,
Is there a limit to the number of symbolic links you can have?
I tried to vi the symbolic link relating to a file and got the following error:
"filename" Too many levels of symbolic links
There is only one symbolic link to one file in this case, but there are >2000 other links to... (2 Replies)
Hi,
- we have copy (cp command) to do to save all the contents of a dty BUT we dont want to copy the files corresponding to symbolic links contained whithin this dty
- the box is a sun solaris one - and the cp commande do not say avything about that?
thanks for help
Jakez (7 Replies)
I am linking a directory as follows:
ln -sf /home/xxx/userid/real_files/* /home/xxx/userid/linked_files
This gives me symbolic links for all the files in the real_files directory in the linked_files directory. My question is, if I go and remove a file in the real_files directory and then go... (1 Reply)
I need to copy a directory from a production system to a test system on the same Aix server. However I need to ensure that the soft links are preserved as part of the copy ( therefore I guess the cp command is not the way to go )
What command can I use in Aix to achieve this copy ?
thanks in... (2 Replies)
Hi Guys...
I want to create a link using ln -s for a directory that does not exist on the box.
How do I do that?
I had some files from Box A directory /d1/u01 and I copied the files across to another Box lets say Box B on directory /d2/u02.
Now I want a link so that this path /d1/u01... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have scoured the entire forum for this but to no avail unfortunately. Basically, I would like to remove my symbolic link from my folder name i.e.
foldername -> /a/b/c/d/f
where f is indeed a folder. I have tried rmdir but this does not work and in actual fact deletes the... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file with more than 1 layers of soft links for it. For ex.
ls -la .profile
.profile@ -> /home/act/.profile_abc
ls -la
/home/act/.profile_abc@ -> .profile_final
I want to get the name of the last file (i.e. .profile_final) when I refer to .profile using shell script. I... (2 Replies)
cpio.h(3HEAD) Headers cpio.h(3HEAD)NAME
cpio.h, cpio - cpio archive values
SYNOPSIS
#include <cpio.h>
DESCRIPTION
Values needed by the c_mode field of the cpio archive format are described as follows:
Name Description
C_IRUSR Read by owner
C_IWUSR Write by owner
C_IXUSR Execute by owner
C_IRGRP Read by group
C_IWGRP Write by group
C_IXGRP Execute by group
C_IROTH Read by others
C_IWOTH Write by others
C_IXOTH Execute by others
C_ISUID Set user ID
C_ISGID Set group ID
C_ISVTX On directories, restricted deletion flag
C_ISDIR Directory
C_ISFIFO FIFO
C_ISREG Regular file
C_ISBLK Block special
C_ISCHR Character special
C_ISCTG Reserved
C_ISLNK Symbolic link
C_ISSOCK Socket
The header defines the symbolic constant:
MAGIC "070707"
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO pax(1), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.10 10 Sep 2004 cpio.h(3HEAD)