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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 'cp' command: preserve group ownership Post 302751103 by Peasant on Thursday 3rd of January 2013 07:32:11 AM
Old 01-03-2013
You can use a pax oneliner perhaps (posistion yourself in working directory)
Code:
pax -rw -pe -s /myfile.txt/mycopy.txt/g myfile.txt $PWD/

 

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LFC-CHGRP(1)							 LFC User Commands						      LFC-CHGRP(1)

NAME
lfc-chgrp - change group ownership of a LFC directory/file in the name server SYNOPSIS
lfc-chgrp [-h] [-R] group path... DESCRIPTION
lfc-chgrp sets the group ownership of a LFC directory/file in the name server to the value of group. To change the group ID, the effective user ID of the process must match the owner ID of the file and the new group must be in the list of groups the caller belong to or the caller must have ADMIN privilege in the Cupv database. group is either a valid group name or a valid numeric ID. path specifies the LFC pathname. If path does not start with /, it is prefixed by the content of the LFC_HOME environment variable. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -h If path is a symbolic link, changes the ownership of the link itself. -R Recursive mode. EXIT STATUS
This program returns 0 if the operation was successful or >0 if the operation failed. SEE ALSO
Castor_limits(4), lfc_chown(3), Cupvlist(1) AUTHOR
LCG Grid Deployment Team LFC
$Date: 2007/01/13 10:35:39 $ LFC-CHGRP(1)
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