bogocopy: Copy a directory tree, making zero-size sparse copies of big files.
Copies a directory tree, preserving permissions and modification times, but making zero-size sparse copies of big files. See the README file.
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| Versions [RSS] | 0.1.0.2 |
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| Dependencies | base (>=4.0 && <5), directory (>=1.2.6.0), filemanip (>=0.3.6.3), filepath (>=1.4.0.0), optparse-applicative (>=0.12.1.0), shelly (>=1.6.8.1), text (>=1.2.2.1), transformers (>=0.4.2.0), unix (>=2.7.1.0) [details] |
| Tested with | ghc ==8.0.1 |
| License | BSD-2-Clause |
| Copyright | phlummox 2016 |
| Author | phlummox |
| Maintainer | phlummox2@gmail.com |
| Revised | Revision 2 made by phlummox at 2017-01-06T17:14:49Z |
| Category | System Tools, Tools, File Manager |
| Home page | https://github.com/phlummox/bogocopy |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/phlummox/bogocopy |
| Uploaded | by phlummox at 2017-01-05T09:03:34Z |
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| Reverse Dependencies | 1 direct, 0 indirect [details] |
| Executables | bogocopy |
| Downloads | 1382 total (5 in the last 30 days) |
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Readme for bogocopy-0.1.0.2
[back to package description]bogocopy 
Copies a directory tree, preserving permissions and modification times, but making zero-size sparse copies of big files.
Installing and running
Install in the standard Haskell way: cabal install bogocopy, or stack install bogocopy if using Stack.
Usage:
bogocopy [-v|--verbose] (-s|--size SIZE_MB) SRCDIR DSTDIR
copy a directory tree, preserving permissions and modification times, but making zero-size sparse copies of big files
DSTDIRwill be created.
Available options:
-h,--help
Show this help text
--v,--verbose
Verbose (debugging) output
--s,--size SIZE_MB
Size limit, files leq to this size (in MB) are real-copied, those above are not.
Bugs and limitations
- Limited to unix-like systems with
rsyncandcpcommands available. - Won't preserve the "ctime" (inode change time) of a node
- Tested in only a desultory fashion, use at your own risk