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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Copy directory withOUT recursion Post 303020661 by chebarbudo on Wednesday 25th of July 2018 09:15:45 AM
Old 07-25-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
If you just want to copy regular files from /tmp to /home/jail/tmp, one could try something like:
Code:
for path in /tmp/*
do    [ -f "$path" ] && cp -p "$path" /home/jail/tmp
done

assuming that you're using a shell based on Bourne shell syntax.
Hi Don Cragun and thanks for your concern,
No I only want to copy the directory and its attributes, not the files nor the other folders in it.

------ Post updated at 15:15 ------

Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Code:
# a root user 
mkdir /home/jail/
mkdir /home/jail/tmp
chmod 7777 /home/jail/tmp # set sticky bit

Try this?
Hi jim mcnamara and thanks for your interest,
That technic would fail to copy any folder with nod other than 7777.
It would fail to copy /etc/sudoers.d to /home/jail/etc/sudoers.d and also fail to copy /var/run to /home/jail/var/run
What I want is to copy a folder and its attributes and nothing else.
I'm looking for a command that does what this script does:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p "$2"
chmod --reference="$1" "$2"
chown --reference="$1" "$2"
touch --reference="$1" "$2"

Does it exist at all?
 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

jls

JLS(8)							    BSD System Manager's Manual 						    JLS(8)

NAME

     jls -- list jails

SYNOPSIS

     jls [-dhNnqsv] [-j jail] [parameter ...]

DESCRIPTION

     The jls utility lists all active jails, or the specified jail.  Each jail is represented by one row which contains space-separated values of
     the listed parameters, including the pseudo-parameter all which will show all available jail parameters.  A list of available parameters can
     be retrieved via ``sysctl -d security.jail.param''.  See jail(8) for a description of some core parameters.

     If no parameters or any of the options -hns are given, the following four columns will be printed: jail identifier (jid), IP address
     (ip4.addr), hostname (host.hostname), and path (path).

     The following options are available:

     -d      List dying as well as active jails.

     -h      Print a header line containing the parameters listed.  If no parameters are given on the command line, all is assumed.

     -N      In the standard display mode, print each jail's name instead of its numeric ID.  If the jail does not have a name, the numeric ID is
	     printed instead.

     -n      Print parameters in ``name=value'' format, where each parameter is preceded by its name.  If no parameters are given on the command
	     line, all is assumed.

     -q      Put quotes around parameters if they contain spaces or quotes, or are the empty string.

     -s      Print parameters suitable for passing to jail(8), skipping read-only and unused parameters.  Implies -nq.

     -v      Print a multiple-line summary per jail, with the following parameters: jail identifier (jid), hostname (host.hostname), path (path),
	     jail name (name), jail state (dying), cpuset ID (cpuset), IP address(es) (ip4.addr and ip6.addr).

     -j jail
	     The jid or name of the jail to list.  Without this option, all active jails will be listed.

SEE ALSO

     jail_get(2), jail(8), jexec(8)

HISTORY

     The jls utility was added in FreeBSD 5.1.	Extensible jail parameters were introduced in FreeBSD 8.0.

BSD
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