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Offline motorollinTopic starter

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CLONE argument of copy command
« on: October 23, 2008, 02:24:08 PM »
What exactly does 'COPY ... CLONE' do compared to just 'COPY'?

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Re: CLONE argument of copy command
« Reply #1 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

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Re: CLONE argument of copy command
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: CLONE argument of copy command
« Reply #3 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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Re: CLONE argument of copy command
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2008, 03:13:59 PM »
I have always used "copy df0: all"  that seems to do exactly the same thing
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Re: CLONE argument of copy command
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2008, 03:14:53 PM »
I think the clone option preserves the file attributes.
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Re: CLONE argument of copy command
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2008, 03:48:51 PM »
And keeps the original datestamps for the drawers.
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Re: CLONE argument of copy command
« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2008, 03:50:45 PM »
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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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add QUIET, too - will go quicker.
(or use the command Xcopy...)
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Re: CLONE argument of copy command
« Reply #8 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
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