Re: cp command

[Jim Meyering]

Patrick J Clas <address@hidden> wrote:
> the timestamps of files with the -p flag.  The script I'm running copies
> many files and some of them have permissions that prevent the preserve
> from working.  The problem is that cp returns 1 for this failure and I
> fail even though it's an acceptable condition.  I guess I'd like to see cp
> return a different return code so I didn't have to parse the string output
> of the command, or perhaps an additional flag that says we don't care if
> the preserve fails.  I do care about severe errors like the copy failing
> completely, but if the preserve fails, the copy still could've succeeded.

Have you tried options like --no-preserve=ownership
or --no-preserve=mode ?