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From: sa@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: "cpmod" Copy Modes program wanted
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Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 13:03:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 11 13:03:42 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 08:18:38 EDT
Reply-To: sa@ttidca.TTI.COM (Steve Alter)
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This shouldn't be too tough to write, but why re-invent the computer?

We could really use a "cpmod" program to copy modes/ownerships/times
from one existing file to other existing files.  I envision the
syntax like:

	cpmod [-m] [-o] [-t] file another-file ...

This would copy modes (unless -m is given), ownerships (unless -o is
given) and times (unless -t is given) from the first file to all of
the other files.  Note that copying of times is not possible if any
destination file is a directory, but no error message should be
produced in that case.  If all three options are given then an error
message should be produced saying that there is no work left to do.

Once this is done, could it be incorporated into a rcpmod "Remote Copy
Modes" program?  We need something like this to maintain files on
our local network, but "rcp -p" won't suffice because each system
needs slight modifications in many of the files and I'd like all of
the destination versions to have the same timestamp, modes, etc.

(Sounds like a good project for a CS graduate student! (:-))

-- Steve Alter
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