I cannot find a way to copy a directory to another location with all attributes (mode, ownership, timestamps) but withOUT recursion (after so many years of working with Linux).
Say I want to create /home/jail/tmp exactly like /tmp but with nothing in it. Here is what I tried:
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.
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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:
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.
Sorry I misunderstood what you were trying to do. Try:
Code:
pax -dLrw -p e /tmp /home/jail
if you're trying to create /home/jail/tmp with the same characteristics as /tmp or:
Code:
pax -dLrw -p e /tmp /home/jail/tmp
if you're trying to create /home/jail/tmp/tmp with the same characteristics as /tmp.
Note that on my system, /tmp is a symbolic link pointing to private/tmp. If /tmp can never be a symbolic link anywhere you might want to try this, you can leave out the pax -L option.
Note, however, that the destination directory (/home/jail or /home/jail/tmp in the above two examples) must exist before you invoke pax.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 07-25-2018 at 10:58 AM..
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