car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) (12/11/89)
Now that I've got my HD driver basically working and my HD partitioned
properly I'd like to load it up with Minix stuff.
How do I copy dir's and files (to my HD) while preserving the UID, accesses,
mod time, etc...?
cp won't do it, cpdir won't do it, tar won't do it, etc...
(and I don't want to do it by hand! chmod, chown, etc...)
Does anyone have a CPIO working on Minix? (Please Email)
Maybe I'll look into porting afio or pax to Minix...
car.
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"I don't ever remember forgetting anything." - Chris Rendejk0@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Jason Coughlin) (12/12/89)
From article <338@trux.UUCP>, by car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende): > cp won't do it, cpdir won't do it, tar won't do it, etc... > (and I don't want to do it by hand! chmod, chown, etc...) yeah, BSD cp has a -p for preserve which preserves the file's date, time, and umask during copying. would be nice if someone (i'm too busy, sorry) would implement this :-). -- Jason Coughlin ( jk0@sun.soe.clarkson.edu , jk0@clutx ) "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of." - They Might Be Giants
hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) (12/13/89)
In article <1989Dec11.185225.15922@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, jk0@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Jason Coughlin) writes: > From article <338@trux.UUCP>, by car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende): > > cp won't do it, cpdir won't do it, tar won't do it, etc... I have a clone of cpio that does what you say. You probably have access to UNIX sources; port over CPIO and its done. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs att!lzaz!hcj hcj@lzaz.att.com
paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) (12/15/89)
In article <881@lzaz.ATT.COM> hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes: >In article <1989Dec11.185225.15922@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, jk0@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Jason Coughlin) writes: >> From article <338@trux.UUCP>, by car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende): >> > cp won't do it, cpdir won't do it, tar won't do it, etc... > >I have a clone of cpio that does what you say. >You probably have access to UNIX sources; port over CPIO and its done. Umm... Doesn't his source license prevent him from using the sources on some non-licensed cpu? If cpio is really what's wanted, there are at least two non-proprietary options: afio and pax. The Minix tar program is pretty puny, but a real tar will do what Chris wants. I've got the 1.07 version of GNU tar working under Minix 1.3. It's still behaving a little strangely, so I hesitate to post diffs just yet. If there's interest, I'll post after I'm sure it's stable. Paul Allen -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul L. Allen | pallen@atc.boeing.com Boeing Advanced Technology Center | ...!uw-beaver!bcsaic!pallen
evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce Evans) (12/15/89)
In article <338@trux.UUCP> car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes: >How do I copy dir's and files (to my HD) while preserving the UID, accesses, >mod time, etc...? > >cp won't do it, cpdir won't do it, tar won't do it, etc... "cpdir -ms" will do it when run by root. Any decent tar will do it when run by root. I think that includes the version recently posted by Klamer Schutte. I use this little program: #! /bin/sh # Contents: tarcp # Wrapped by evans@ditsyda on Fri Dec 15 04:42:16 1989 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb ; export PATH if test -f 'tarcp' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'tarcp'\" else echo shar: Extracting \"'tarcp'\" \(52 characters\) sed "s/^X//" >'tarcp' <<'END_OF_FILE' Xtarg=$1 Xshift Xtar cf - $* | ( cd $targ; tar xvvf -) END_OF_FILE if test 52 -ne `wc -c <'tarcp'`; then echo shar: \"'tarcp'\" unpacked with wrong size! fi # end of 'tarcp' fi echo shar: End of shell archive. exit 0 -- Bruce Evans evans@ditsyda.oz.au