From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 119812 invoked by alias); 20 May 2016 17:45:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 119758 invoked by uid 89); 20 May 2016 17:45:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=art, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-HELO: nm14-vm2.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Received: from nm14-vm2.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (HELO nm14-vm2.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com) (216.39.63.42) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 20 May 2016 17:45:34 +0000 Received: from [216.39.60.172] by nm14.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 May 2016 17:45:33 -0000 Received: from [98.138.104.98] by tm8.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 May 2016 17:45:33 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp118.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 May 2016 17:45:32 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: 0z5TJLmswBDohOc2QznCIeoaEiEalQiTSMLFNdKdTt4t To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: lostbits Subject: Can I eliminate diagnostic messages from cp Message-ID: <3e817f56-2193-6a63-ec27-1f49dc2b2e00@att.net> Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 17:45:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2016-05/txt/msg00236.txt.bz2 I use cp as my backup tool from disk to USB. There are maybe 40,000 files involved and each one has a message of "cp: preserving permissions for ’: Not supported". These messages slow down the backup and obscure meaningful faults. Is there any option for removing the messages? My command line is: cp / thanks art -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple