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) 2022 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)