cp

Runs on:

QNX OS

Options:

-a

Same as -dpr.

-D --parents

Create leading directories under the destination file.

-d

Don't dereference symbolic links.

-F

Delete any existing destination file first.

-f

Delete destination files you can't write to.

-H

Follow the symbolic links listed on the command line.

-i

Run interactively; always prompt before overwriting an existing destination file.

-L

Follow all symbolic links.

-l

("el") Hard link files instead of copying.

-n

No clobber; don't overwrite the destination file.

-u

Update; keep the most recent modified time.

-P

Do not follow symbolic links.

-p

Preserve timestamps, the ownership of each file, and the file mode.

--preserve= motcxa

Preserve the specified attributes.

-R

Recursively copy the contents of a directory into subdirectories. The destination must be a directory.

-r

Same as -R.

-s

Create symbolic links instead of copying.

-t target

Copy files to the target directory (no destination).

-T

The destination is always treated as a file, with a maximum of two arguments.

-v

Be verbose.

dest

The pathname of the directory to which cp copies.

source

The pathname of the directory that cp copies from.

Description:

The cp utility copies the contents of the source file to the destination file. If there is more than one source file, the destination must be a directory.

Arguments to --preserve are the first letter(s) of the following:

• mode — permissions (ignores calls to umask for read, write, execute; copy setuid and sticky bit permissions)
• ownership — user and group access
• timestamps — file creation, modification, and access times
• context — security context
• xattr — extended attributes
• all — all the above

Contributing author:

Rob Landley and the toybox project (see https://landley.net/toybox/).