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# Understand <code>--sparse</code> option and usage cases | # Understand <code>--sparse</code> option and usage cases | ||
# Learn how to not overwrite a file with <code>-n, --no-clobber</code> option<ref>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9392735/linux-how-to-copy-but-not-overwrite</ref> or using <code>[[rsync]] -a -v --ignore-existing src dst</code> | # Learn how to not overwrite a file with <code>-n, --no-clobber</code> option<ref>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9392735/linux-how-to-copy-but-not-overwrite</ref> or using <code>[[rsync]] -a -v --ignore-existing src dst</code> | ||
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== See also == | == See also == | ||
Revision as of 10:15, 7 January 2020
cp[1] command is used for copying files and directories. It lacks progress bar indicator[2], but you can use progress -w command to display the percentage of copied data or use rsync[3] command.
Ansible also includes a cp module with limited scalability (>hundreds of files) [4]
Options
-a, --archive-l, --linkhard link files instead of copying
Activities
- Understand the differences between cp, scp and rsync: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20244585/how-does-scp-differ-from-rsync
- Understand
--sparseoption and usage cases - Learn how to not overwrite a file with
-n, --no-clobberoption[5] or usingrsync -a -v --ignore-existing src dst
Related commands
See also
cp,dd,sftp,scp,rsync,casync,mv,fio,ln,docker cp, kubectl cp,minikube cp,multipass transfer,Copy-Item,Xcopyprogress[6]: Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd. See also: pv[7] (Pipe Viewer). Example:progress -mdd
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Source: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Linux/Basic_commands/cp
- ↑ http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/cp.1.html
- ↑ https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65077/is-it-possible-to-see-cp-speed-and-percent-copied
- ↑ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6339287/copy-or-rsync-command
- ↑ https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/copy_module.html
- ↑ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9392735/linux-how-to-copy-but-not-overwrite
- ↑ https://github.com/Xfennec/progress
- ↑ https://linux.die.net/man/1/pv
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