Re: Misinterpretation of File::Copy

Hi,

see e.g. man cp:

       -p, --preserve
              preserve file attributes if possible

Now this "if possible" says exactly, that only if you have
the necessary rights it will preserve attributes. That is in
your case "being root".

It´s an inherent Unix feature. Can´t say anything about the Win
behaviour.

Ciao

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Re: Re: Misinterpretation of File::Copy by c (Hermit) on Jul 23, 2001 at 15:04 UTC
It kind of seems like in order to achieve what i want i'll need to use an `exec()` or `system()` call for what I am wanting to do, but I was hoping to keep this script as pure perl if possible. humbly -c	[reply] [d/l] [select]