Re: [bug-gawk] gawk - 'inplace' feature ignores file's access flags (read-only)

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Jun 17 12:55 Johannes Meixner wrote (excerpt):
> Curently I don't know a command that creates a file anew
> with '--preserve=all' from another (template) file but
> without copying the content of the other file.

How embarassing:

I had tried only plain "cp --attributes-only old new"
which does of course not preserve the old attributes.

But

  cp --attributes-only --preserve=all old new

just works as expected.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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