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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-06-29 10:45:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2012-06-30 11:00:32 +0200 |
| commit | 5f6c22fceedd0d350e1a8246d4d73840de666c7e (patch) | |
| tree | f9f1a5dbf0856d591f3d9fc103b2c3349f817710 /doc | |
| parent | 5958bb44c4d7cf3b69bb62955b3ece9d0715eb60 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-5f6c22fceedd0d350e1a8246d4d73840de666c7e.tar.xz | |
doc: improve sample backup script
* doc/coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Make the backup script exit
with an accurate reflection of any failure.
Also, add --preserve=all.
Improved-by: Bernhard Voelker
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 08ef2d8c8..954a1f8f4 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7675,9 +7675,11 @@ combination of options is this tiny Bourne shell script: #!/bin/sh # Usage: backup FILE... # Create a @sc{gnu}-style backup of each listed FILE. +fail=0 for i; do - cp --backup --force -- "$i" "$i" + cp --backup --force --preserve=all -- "$i" "$i" || fail=1 done +exit $fail @end example @item --copy-contents |