From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 39713 invoked by alias); 20 May 2016 17:48:29 -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 39663 invoked by uid 89); 20 May 2016 17:48:21 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=umm, lostbits, HContent-Transfer-Encoding:8bit X-HELO: csmail.cs.umass.edu Received: from mdc1.cs.umass.edu (HELO csmail.cs.umass.edu) (128.119.240.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 20 May 2016 17:48:20 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.144] (rrcs-50-74-66-18.nyc.biz.rr.com [50.74.66.18]) by csmail.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D529E880001047EB8E; Fri, 20 May 2016 13:48:18 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: Can I eliminate diagnostic messages from cp References: <3e817f56-2193-6a63-ec27-1f49dc2b2e00@att.net> To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 17:48:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3e817f56-2193-6a63-ec27-1f49dc2b2e00@att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-05/txt/msg00237.txt.bz2 On 5/20/2016 1:45 PM, lostbits wrote: > 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 / Umm, add command line flags that don't request the permissions to be set? E.g., --no-preserve=mode You can play around with the various options of preserving / not preserving mode, ownership, date/time, etc. Regards -- Eliot -- 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