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Old 05-07-2012
What's wrong with the following command?

Hi all,

I'm trying to run the following command to get all files in one directory to another with the files' timestamps preserved,

Code:
cp -p /logs/dvgbiau/batch/* /logs/dvgbiau/tmp_batch

Note that ./batch and ./tmp_batch are two sub-directories under /logs/dvgbiau.

The error was,
Code:
"Segmentation Fault (core dumped)"

Apparently there's a bug in my command? I tried the below command and all files got copied without an error (I removed the option "-p"),
Code:
cp /logs/dvgbiau/batch/* /logs/dvgbiau/tmp_batch

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Last edited by Scrutinizer; 05-07-2012 at 07:07 AM.. Reason: code tags
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Old 05-07-2012
Ok. What UNIX OS are you on? As a starting guess I would think your directory metadata is corrupted. There are other possibilities.
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