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 MINIX
cp
CP(1) General Commands Manual CP(1)NAME
cp, cpdir - file copy
SYNOPSIS
cp [-pifsmrRvx] file1 file2
cp [-pifsrRvx] file ... directory
cpdir [-ifvx] file1 file2
OPTIONS -p Preserve full mode, uid, gid and times
-i Ask before removing existing file
-f Forced remove existing file
-s Make similar, copy some attributes
-m Merge trees, disable the into-a-directory trick
-r Copy directory trees with link structure, etc. intact
-R Copy directory trees and treat special files as ordinary
-v Display what cp is doing
-x Do not cross device boundaries
EXAMPLES
cp oldfile newfile # Copy oldfile to newfile
cp -R dir1 dir2 # Copy a directory tree
DESCRIPTION
Cp copies one file to another, or copies one or more files to a directory. Special files are normally opened and read, unless -r is used.
-r also copies the link structure, something -R doesn't care about. The -s option differs from -p that it only copies the times if the
target file already exists. A normal copy only copies the mode of the file, with the file creation mask applied. Set-uid bits are cleared
if the owner cannot be set. (The -s flag does not patronize you by clearing bits. Alas -s and -r are nonstandard.)
Cpdir is a convenient synonym for cp -psmr to make a precise copy of a directory tree.
SEE ALSO cat(1), mkdir(1), rmdir(1), ln(1), rm(1).
CP(1)