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Title: CLONE argument of copy command
Post by: motorollin on October 23, 2008, 02:24:08 PM

What exactly does 'COPY ... CLONE' do compared to just 'COPY'?

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moto

Title: Re: CLONE argument of copy command
Post by: ZeBeeDee on October 23, 2008, 02:36:32 PM

IIRC the CLONE argument copies all files and dir structures from 1 place and recreates them at the destination

e.g.

df0:c/copy df0:#? sys: all clone


It's been far too long for CLI commands ... DOpus rules lol

Title: Re: CLONE argument of copy command
Post by: darksun9210 on October 23, 2008, 02:40:56 PM

thats the bunny.... and "all" goes down all subdirectories. so if i was doing a backup or workbench copy to another machine, i'd do "copy dh0:#? dh1: all clone"

this would give me a pure like for like copy.

Title: Re: CLONE argument of copy command
Post by: motorollin on October 23, 2008, 03:04:59 PM

Brilliant, cheers. I'm copying the contents of the OS4 CD to an FFS hard drive under UAE and I suspected I needed the clone argument. I actually did this:

Copy cd0:#? hd0: ALL CLONE

I'm hoping that will result in an exact copy of what's on the CD.

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moto

Title: Re: CLONE argument of copy command
Post by: jj on October 23, 2008, 03:13:59 PM

I have always used "copy df0: all"  that seems to do exactly the same thing

Title: Re: CLONE argument of copy command
Post by: Colani1200 on October 23, 2008, 03:14:53 PM

I think the clone option preserves the file attributes.

Title: Re: CLONE argument of copy command
Post by: zipper on October 23, 2008, 03:48:51 PM

And keeps the original datestamps for the drawers.

Title: Re: CLONE argument of copy command
Post by: zipper on October 23, 2008, 03:50:45 PM

Quote

Copy cd0:#? hd0: ALL CLONE

I'm hoping that will result in an exact copy of what's on the CD.

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moto

add QUIET, too - will go quicker.
(or use the command Xcopy...)

Title: Re: CLONE argument of copy command
Post by: AmigaMance on October 23, 2008, 04:17:12 PM

I'm using it by default. Here is how:
Open the s:shell-startup file and add the line
alias copy c:copy clone