If you just want to copy regular files from /tmp to /home/jail/tmp, one could try something like:
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.
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
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:
Does it exist at all?
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
cd
cd(1T) Tcl Built-In Commands cd(1T)__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________NAME
cd - Change working directory
SYNOPSIS
cd ?dirName?
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
Change the current working directory to dirName, or to the home directory (as specified in the HOME environment variable) if dirName is not
given. Returns an empty string. Note that the current working directory is a per-process resource; the cd command changes the working
directory for all interpreters and (in a threaded environment) all threads.
EXAMPLES
Change to the home directory of the user fred:
cd ~fred
Change to the directory lib that is a sibling directory of the current one:
cd ../lib
SEE ALSO filename(1T), glob(1T), pwd(1T)KEYWORDS
working directory
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Availability | SUNWTcl |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Uncommitted |
+--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES
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Tclcd(1T)