Why the cp keeps the original ownership?

Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Why the cp keeps the original ownership?

Tags

cp, original, shell scripts

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Why the cp keeps the original ownership?

09-24-2008

Registered User

49, 0

Join Date: Apr 2008

Last Activity: 17 May 2011, 4:09 PM EDT

Posts: 49

Thanks Given: 0

Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

Why the cp keeps the original ownership?

I want to copy a file from another user to my owner directory, and want to change the ownership to my account.
in jung's directory:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jung smart 23 Dec 1 2005 .runme

Code:

cp /home/jung/runme .

under my directory:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jung smart 23 Dec 1 2005 .runme

When I used the cp to copy runme from jung's directory to my directory, the ownership is still jung, even I did not use the -p option.

It is HP-UX.
thanks.

freelong

View Public Profile for freelong

Find all posts by freelong

09-25-2008

Registered User

3,653, 12

Join Date: Mar 2008

Last Activity: 28 March 2011, 6:41 AM EDT

Location: /there/is/only/bin/sh

Posts: 3,653

Thanks Given: 0

Thanked 12 Times in 10 Posts

If your report is accurate, you copied runme without a dot, not .runme

era

View Public Profile for era

Find all posts by era

Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Ownership changes

I have 2 Linux servers and 1 windows server. One Linux server has an NSF share which points to the windows server. The other Linux server rsyncs any data to the other Linux server containing the windows share. My issue is that everytime the Linux administrator rsync data to the linux server...

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

retain ownership

Hi, I have a script which transfers files/directories from one HP unix to another HP unix server using SCP but i need to retain ownership of files/folders same as source server my script is as follows cd /sasdata/TR_CNTO328/C0328T07/Dry_Run_1/Macros find . -type d -newer . -exec scp -pr {}...

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Get ownership info from LS

Hi, When I do the ls-ld command for example like this: # ls -ld /Applications I get an output like this: drwxrwxr-x+ 114 root admin 3876 18 Aug 14:04 /Applications I need to somehow use sed to put the ownership into a format like this: root:admin So basically remove...

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Ownership question

Hi there, Complete Newbie here so any help would be so appreciated! :) I've set up a test directory and am trying to figure out out how to ensure that all new files will remain owned by the directory owner... not the creator of the file??

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

changing ownership?

how would i change ownership of file1 so the user NATE gets ownership of the file?

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

file ownership confusion

Hello all, I have a script that runs on both the test and production box. The script is owned by a user (abcd for example) with permission set to 700. When this script is run as a root, the log file generated has owner and group as abcdowner and abcdgroup respectively. Now, when I run the same...

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

precompressing and ownership

I'm looking for a way to create preprocessed .gz files of static pages to serve up to those browsers that can accept them. I know I can use: gzip -c --best index.html > index.html.gz to create the .gz file _and_ keep the original. What's the proper command line way to run that on each...

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

command to copy files with original ownership

Hi, I need a command that to copy files from others and to keep files' ownership. Example: I copy file.txt from users "abc" to my local, and file.txt is own by user "abc" in local. Thanks in advance!

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

help regarding file ownership

hi friends,i have a doubt,if there is a file for which i have only read access then is there any way to execute it,plz reply soon

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

ownership of files

Hi, While changing ownerships from the root on a server i'm managing, i typed chown -R username:users * and it changed all ownership to username. Can someone tell me if there is someway I can set things back the way they were before? I can't even su username from the root. Am I going to just...

Login or Register to Ask a Question