e2cp - copies files from/to an e2fs filesystem

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  EXAMPLES  SEE ALSO  AUTHOR 

NAME

e2cp − copies files from/to an e2fs filesystem

SYNOPSIS

e2cp [options] files... dest

DESCRIPTION

The e2cp command copies files to/from an e2fs filesystem from/to the machine’s filesystem.

OPTIONS

A single ‘-’ (dash) can be used instead of a file name to indicate standard input/output.

−0

Input lines terminated by a null character.

−a

Absolute directory names − create directories instead of just copying into the destination. Only valid for copying into an ext2fs filesystem.

−d dest_dir

Destination of files to be copied. May be in the ext2fs filesystem or the host filesystem.

−G gid

Set the default group to gid.

−O uid

Set the default file owner to uid.

−p

Preserve host file attributes (permissions, times, etc.) when copying files.

−P mode

Set the file permissions (ie 755, 666).

−s src_dir

The source of the files to be copied.

−v

Be verbose.

EXAMPLES

Copy a file and use the default permission and ownership of the current user:

e2cp README.txt /tmp/boot.img:/tmp

Do the same thing, but keep permissions & ownership:

e2cp −p README.txt /tmp/boot.img:/tmp

Dump a file to standard out:

e2cp /tmp/boot.img:/tmp/README.txt − | wc

Get a file from standard input and put it on an unmounted partition:

tar cf − /data/logs|gzip| e2cp − /dev/hdb1:/backup/logs.tar.gz

Copy the files from one directory and put them under another directory on an unmounted partition, keeping the original paths, permissions & ownership:

find /data −type f |tee filelist | e2cp −apv −d /dev/hdb1:/mirror

Copy files from a directory on an unmounted partition to a local directory (Note: this does not recreate the directories in the local filesystem, yet). The list of files are read from standard input:

e2cp −pv −s /dev/hdb1:/mirror −d /data2 < filelist

Copy a file to a file system and make the group and ownership root

e2cp −G 0 −O 0 myfile /tmp/boot.img/boot/rootfile

SEE ALSO

e2tools(7), e2ln(1), e2ls(1), e2mkdir(1), e2mv(1), e2rm(1), e2tail(1).

AUTHOR

The e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).


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