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  Cp (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
cp is the command entered in a Unix shell to copy a file from one place to another, possibly on a different filesystem.
Versions of the cp command from other operating systems may have different usage and flags.
cp [ -f ] [ -h ] [ -i ] [ -p ] [ -- ] { -r
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cp_(Unix)   (665 words)

  
 Unix - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
UNIX® (or Unix) is a portable, multi-task and multi-user computer operating system originally developed by a group of ATandT Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy.
By 1993 most of the commercial vendors of UNIX had changed their commercial variants of UNIX to be based upon SVR4, and many BSD features were added on top.
The UNIX trademark and the certification rights were sold to the X/Open Consortium, which was an industry group to define a "UNIX Standard".
open-encyclopedia.com /Unix   (2721 words)

  
 Dd (Unix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Because dd can copy entire partitions or disks (this is more due to Unix providing access to these devices than the functionality of dd per se), it is used in computer forensics when the contents of a partition need to be preserved in a byte-exact copy.
The command line syntax of dd is unlike that of any other Unix program, resulting in widespread fear and loathing; it is rumored to have been based on IBM's JCL, and though the syntax may have been a joke there seems to have never been any effort to write a more Unix-like replacement.
The loathing is triggered by the blatant violation of the Unix philosophy of using a common syntax for all command line tools.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dd_(Unix)   (906 words)

  
 cp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The format is: cp file1 file2, where file1 is the name (including the path) of the file you want to copy, and file2 is the destination.
The Unix cp command always requires both a source filename and a destination.
Unix files which are deleted cannot be retrieved, except from a tape backup.
www.med.nyu.edu /rcr/rcr/nyu_vms/VMS-Unix-Course/cp.htm   (233 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Cp (Unix)
See Filing system for this term as it is used in libraries and offices In computing, a file system is a method for storing and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them.
Setuid is a UNIX term, and is short for Set User ID. Setuid, also sometimes referred to as suid, is an access right flag that can be assigned to files and directories on a UNIX based operating system.
Categories: Unix software In computing, the tar file format is a type of archive file format: the Tape ARchive format.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cp-(Unix)   (946 words)

  
 Unix Cp File Keep Owner -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Unix provides a means for you to keep other users from accessing your files.
Unix, the most important thing to keep in mind is that everything is a file...
The Unix file system is a methodology for logically organizing and storing large quantities of data such that the system is easy to manage.
unix.fmqg.com /index.php?k=unix-cp-file-keep-owner   (1113 words)

  
 Unix Cp File Keeping Owner -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
UNIX may be regarded as the 0th edition.
UNIX happens to be a multi-user- multi-tasking system, thus bringing a need for security not found on MSDOS, AppleDOS, etc....
Unix people retain a voice.) At the time of the decision, I was very unhappy about the notion of maintaining a file...
unix.fmqg.com /index.php?k=unix-cp-file-keeping-owner   (1082 words)

  
 Copying UNIX Files   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The cp command lets you copy a file from one location to another on a UNIX machine.
Most UNIX commands have a variety of additional command modifiers that can be used to change the output.
The mv command is similar to the cp command, except it copies the file and deletes the original.
cmgm.stanford.edu /classes/unix/cp.html   (171 words)

  
 cp(txt) manual page
the cp command copies a source file or the files in a source directory to a destination file or directory.
-f the cp command does not prompt you when an existing file is to be overwritten.
if a destination file already exists, its contents are overwritten if permissions allow, but cp does not change its mode, user id, or group id. however, if the file is not being copied by the root user, writing the file may clear the set-user-id or set-group-id permission bits.
www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk /CCSG/info/software/unix/cp.html   (930 words)

  
 Softpanorama OS History Education Project Library
The Unix code was distributed free by Bell Labs and many companies and universities started modifying it to create two strains of Unix, later called System V and BSD.
Moreover, it was one of the influential Unix players (Xenix) that later became the most successful anti-Unix player and in late 80th and early 90th greatly contributed to the diversity and low prices of the software on Unix and creation of such projects as FreeBSD and, especially, Linux.
Unix Heritage Society, The - fosters the preservation and maintenance of historical and non-mainstream UNIX systems, as well as the further development of existing ones.
www.softpanorama.org /History/os_history.shtml   (4279 words)

  
 UNIX man pages : cp ()
cp will attempt to copy all of the source file's extended attributes along with the file data to the destination file.
cp will print a diagnostic message to stderr and return a non-zero exit status if unable to clear these bits.
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of cp when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte (2 **31 bytes).
bama.ua.edu /cgi-bin/man-cgi?cp   (834 words)

  
 DAT2266 - CP III - UNIX Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Unix commands required for this course are summarized below in order of their usages.
Once you are logging in the Unix system, you will need a few basic file management commands.
cp copies a source file to a destination file, e.g., cp old-file new-file.
elearning.algonquincollege.com /coursemat/markm/dat2266/w1_unix.htm   (1265 words)

  
 ISS - Unix Primer
By 'Unix' is meant a computer operating system which is either UNIX or an extension or variation of it.
Many Unix commands are the names of files, and entering a command causes a file of that name to be executed.
Unix has a 'search path' mechanism so that to invoke a system utility it is only necessary to use its name rather than its full pathname.
www.iss.soton.ac.uk /research/advice/unixprimer.html   (3016 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
cp fails if file1 and new_file are the same (be cautious when using shell metacharacters).
When copying files to a directory or to a new file that does not already exist, cp creates a new file with the same file permission bits as file1, modified by the file creation mask of the user if the -p option was not specified, and then bitwise inclusively ORed with S_IRWXU.
If dest_directory exists, it must be a directory, in which case cp creates a directory within dest_directory with the same name as file1 and copies the subtree rooted at file1 to dest_directory/file1.
www.tu-harburg.de /~rzthcw/unix/info/cp.html   (1285 words)

  
 cp - copy files or directories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
cp is used to make copies of files.
cp -r is used to make copies of directories.
It may be that your cp command is aliased (made to act as) 'cp -i'.
www.asu.edu /it/fyi/dst/helpdocs/unix/unixcommands/cp.html   (155 words)

  
 matchstick unix the online unix manual, with tutorials, help, and training in unix commands.
In the first form, the cp utility copies the contents of the 'source_file' to the 'target_file'.
Cause cp to write a prompt to the standard error output before copying a file that would overwrite an existing file.
Cause cp to preserve in the copy as many of the modification time, access time, file flags, file mode, user ID, and group ID as allowed by permissions.
www.matchstick.com /unix/cmd/cp.html   (544 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
cp- Usage: cp [options] filename1 filename2 cp [options] filename directory DESCRIPTION cp copies the contents of one file to another.
cp will preserve the mode and owner of filename2 as if the file already existed.
EXAMPLES To copy a file to another file: clam% cp hw2.p hw2.1.p clam% ls hw2* hw2.p hw2.1.p To copy a file to another directory: clam% cp ~/hw2.p ~/pascal (note: ~/ specifies the path to your home directory) clam% cd ~/pascal clam% ls hw2* hw2.p For more information see the manual page on cp.
www.camden.rutgers.edu /HELP/AppsCommands/Unix/commands/cp   (133 words)

  
 yaze-ag.doc
I found this error also when I work with the emulator (and with drives which are connected to a unix directory) and so I test also the old version yaze-1.10.
When a unix directory was mounted and there was files like the two z80 files yaze-1.10 and yaze-ag-2.00 creates two CP/M directory entries with the name "SOURCE.Z80".
Bug report 3: When you use also the feature to mount unix directories to a CP/M drive, the problem is that if you edit a file with vi or nedit under unix the emulator don't know about this changes or new files until you make a "remount".
www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de /users/ag/yaze/yaze-ag_doc.html   (3893 words)

  
 The Linux User's Guide - The Unix Shell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It has been said that the only standard thing about all UNIX systems is the message-of-the-day telling users to clean up their files.
Every UNIX command is a sequence of letters, numbers, and characters.
UNIX is intentionally terse: it gives you nothing, not even "no files'' if there aren't any files.
member.melbpc.org.au /~bradmac/guide/shell.html   (2864 words)

  
 crc(l) manual page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
CP/M record delimiters (CR/LF) are substituted for Unix newlines and the file is padded to a 128-byte sector boundary with ^Z (0x1A).
When comparing copies of a text file on Unix and CP/M or similar systems, account must be taken of the format of the file on the Unix system to determine which option to use to check the file.
The file may be in CP/M format, with carriage return/line feed line terminators and padding with control-Z to make the length divisible by 128 (-u option); or it may be in Unix format, with newline line delimiters and no padding (-t option); or in ITS-binary format (-i option).
bima.astro.umd.edu /nemo/man_html/crc.l.html   (398 words)

  
 The cp command   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is most often used to make a backup copy of a file or to copy a file from one directory to another.
It is important to keep in mind that if, prior to the cp command, there exists a file with the same copy_to_file name, it will be overwritten and trashed.
This command allows you to copy all files ending in.c that are in your current working directory into the assignments directory, which itself is a subdirectory of the current working directory.
www.efm.leeds.ac.uk /~as/as/unix_commands/cp.html   (284 words)

  
 Manual Page - cp, ln, mv
If file1 is a file and target is a link to another file with links, the other links remain and target becomes a new file.
When cp is invoked, if target is not an existing file, a new file is created which has the same mode as file1 except that the sticky bit is not set unless you are super-user; the owner and group of target are those of the user.
If the -r option is specified with cp and any of the source files are directories, cp copies each subtree rooted at that name; in this case target must be a directory.
www-bioeng.ucsd.edu /research/research_groups/compbio/bioph254/public_html/UNIX/Man/cp.html   (648 words)

  
 Unix File Management Commands - OIT Help Desk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To be able to navigate in Linux, you should become familiar with these.
The cp command can be used just like the MS-DOS copy command, only remember that directories are separated with slashes (/) instead of backslashes (\).
There are other extensions to the cp command.
www.helpdesk.umd.edu /os/unix/utilities/3676   (465 words)

  
 Cp (Unix) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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www.karr.net /search/encyclopedia/Cp_%28Unix%29   (864 words)

  
 OSU Computational Physics - Unix: Copying Files   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
, which makes Unix ask you for permission before a file is copied over (that's how computers are supposed to behave, with a little respect!).
Note that the names of files can be their full pathnames, or just their names in the local directory.
You see that Unix asks if you really want to overwrite the test.f (and "suggests" that you respond with a "y" or "n").
www.cns.nyu.edu /help/unix/unix/cp-file.html   (203 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The "galloping incompatibility" was an attempt to demonstrate that Idris was not a Unix rip-off.
For example: Command Summary UNIX MS-DOS TOPS-10 display directory ls -l dir dir copy a file cp old new copy old new copy new old What I need from Netland is the common commands for the various operating systems.
I ported it to UNIX to be able to do cross development for CP/M. The compiler output is Z80 assembler source, so if you want to do cross development, you need a cross assembler (and possibly a linker).
www.retroarchive.org /cpm/cdrom/SIMTEL/ARCHIVES/CPM/8810-1.TXT   (11888 words)

  
 Tuxedo: NJYASL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Congress is currently considering a bill (H.R. 3261) that does for facts what the DMCA did for copyright and innovation--it will prevent the public from accessing and using information in ways that are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
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The Technical Lead will be the main functional "benevolent dictator" (in the Linux kernel sense), but may be overridden by the Steering Committee, which itself reports to Red Hat's executive management.
tuxedo.org   (855 words)

  
 Raining Data - Online Technical Manual   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Therefore, the user must use the _CP_TERM() macro to terminate CPSTR's with a 0x00 if it is necessary to pass the string portion of it to a standard Unix routine.
To make it easier to handle the differences between the standard behavior of Unix programs and the standard behavior of Pick programs, two calls are provided that set the "environment" to either Pick or Unix.
After that, the user may use these routines to switch environments as often as desired, but the environment functions are fairly expensive so they should only be used when switching environments is absolutely necessary.
www.picksys.com /support/techpubs/0852head.html   (1311 words)

  
 Unix Shell - cp: copying a file to one directory and all subdirectories
Unix Shell - cp: copying a file to one directory and all subdirectories
page for cp to find an easy way to do this, but to no avail.
> page for cp to find an easy way to do this, but to no avail.
www.webservertalk.com /archive109-2004-6-265115.html   (768 words)

  
 Pictures from the #unix CP 98   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Although the only allowed computer was ment to be only for playing music some people couldn't resist (tte is sitting in front of the computer).
The main topic at the CP: relax and chillout.
We added some extra pointers to announce the #unix CP to all the people in the small town...
www.secnetix.de /%7Eolli/cp98/commented.html   (1216 words)

  
 Copying files and directories - cp - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
The cp command is used to copy files or directories.
Instead of entering the cp command followed by several filenames you can use a single filename that contains one or more wildcards.
Usage: cp [-ip] f1 f2; or: cp [-ipr] f1...
www.ncl.ac.uk /ucs/unix/unixhelp/cp.html   (628 words)

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