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CPMAC(1) BSD General Commands Manual CPMAC(1)
NAME
/usr/bin/CpMac -- copy files preserving metadata and forks
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/CpMac [-rp] [-mac] source target
/usr/bin/CpMac [-rp] [-mac] source ... directory
DESCRIPTION
In its first form, the /usr/bin/CpMac utility copies the contents of the file named by the source oper-and operand
and to the destination path named by the target operand. This form is assumed when the last operand
does not name an already existing directory.
In its second form, /usr/bin/CpMac copies each file named by a source operand to a destination direc-tory directory
tory named by the directory operand. The destination path for each operand is the pathname produced by
the concatenation of the last operand, a slash, and the final pathname component of the named file.
The following options are available:
-r If source designates a directory, /usr/bin/CpMac copies the directory and the entire subtree con-nected connected
nected at that point. This option also causes symbolic links to be copied, rather than indi-rected indirected
rected through, and for /usr/bin/CpMac to create special files rather than copying them as normal
files. Created directories have the same mode as the corresponding source directory, unmodified
by the process' umask.
-p Causes /usr/bin/CpMac to preserve in the copy as many of the modification time, access time, file
flags, file mode, user ID, and group ID as allowed by permissions.
-mac Allows use of HFS-style paths for both source and target. Path elements must be separated by
colons, and the path must begin with a volume name or a colon (to designate current directory).
NOTES
The /usr/bin/CpMac command does not support the same options as the POSIX cp command, and is much less
flexible in its operands. It cannot be used as a direct substitute for cp in scripts.
As of Mac OS X 10.4, the cp command preserves metadata and resource forks of files on Extended HFS vol-umes, volumes,
umes, so it can be used in place of CpMac. The /usr/bin/CpMac command will be deprecated in future
versions of Mac OS X.
SEE ALSO
cp(1) MvMac(1)
Mac OS X April 12, 2004 Mac OS X
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