NAME¶

parrot_cp - a replacement for cp that provides higher performance when dealing with remote files via parrot_run.

SYNOPSIS¶

parrot_cp [options] ... sources ... <dest>

DESCRIPTION¶

parrot_cp is a drop-in replacement for the Unix cp command. It provides better performance when copying files to or from remote storage systems by taking advantage of whole-file transfer rather than copying files block-by-block.

OPTIONS¶

 -f, --force

Forcibly remove target before copying.

 -i, --interactive

Interactive mode: ask before overwriting.

 -r

Same as -R

 -R, --recursive

Recursively copy directories.

 -s, --symlinks

Make symbolic links instead of copying files.

 -l, --hardlinks

Make hard links instead of copying files.

 -u, --update-only

Update mode: Copy only if source is newer than target.

 -v, --version

Verbose mode: Show names of files copied.

 -h, --help

Help: Show these options.

EXIT STATUS¶

On success, returns zero. On failure, returns non-zero.

EXAMPLES¶

To use parrot_cp you can either call the code directly:

% parrot_run tcsh
% parrot_cp /tmp/mydata /chirp/server.nd.edu/joe/data
% exit

or alias calls to cp with calls to parrot_cp:

% parrot_run bash
% alias cp parrot_cp
% cp -r /chirp/server.nd.edu/joe /tmp/joe
% exit

COPYRIGHT¶

The Cooperative Computing Tools are Copyright (C) 2005-2019 The University of Notre Dame. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for details.

SEE ALSO¶

• Cooperative Computing Tools Documentation
• Parrot User Manual
• parrot_run(1) parrot_cp(1) parrot_getacl(1) parrot_setacl(1) parrot_mkalloc(1) parrot_lsalloc(1) parrot_locate(1) parrot_timeout(1) parrot_whoami(1) parrot_mount(1) parrot_md5(1) parrot_package_create(1) parrot_package_run(1) chroot_package_run(1)