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Re: Can I eliminate diagnostic messages from cp
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: lostbits <aschwarz1309 at att dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 20:50:30 +0300
- Subject: Re: Can I eliminate diagnostic messages from cp
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Greetings, lostbits!
> I use cp as my backup tool from disk to USB. There are maybe 40,000
> files involved and each one has a message of
> "cp: preserving permissions for <file>â: Not supported". These messages
> slow down the backup and obscure meaningful faults. Is there any option
> for removing the messages?
> My command line is: cp <directory> /<usb>
If your USB is formatted in FAT, then --preserve=none will get rid of these
messages.
As FAT doesn't really support anything at all.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, May 20, 2016 20:49:46
Sorry for my terrible english...