copy over, but leave ownership the same - HOW?

so I often need to copy over entire files and sym links from one location (site root) on my server to another. I normally use:

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cp -r -p /home/cpm186/public_html /home/cpm923/subdomains/example

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I am doing this as root

then I still need to go in and do this:

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cd /home/cpm923/subdomains;
chown -R cpm923 *;
chgrp -R cpm923 *

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Any way I can copy files into another area and have the files automatically inherit owner and group attributes of the folder being dumped into? THANKS! and btw if youneed PHP help, www dot phpbuilder etc is the forum I help out on as that's my strength ;)

Sam

Using "cpio" will do what you want. I've used command strings similar to this one (taken from your example) more times than I can count.

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cd /home/cpm186/public_html
find . -depth -print | cpio -pvmd /home/cpm923/subdomains/example

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You might need to tweak where you "cd" and do something like "find public_html ..." to get the right directory structure created on the destination end. But it will create file preserving ownership and permissions. In fact I used to do something very similar to duplicate entire filesystems to clone boot drives so it handles any type of weird file you might need it to reproduce.

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Originally Posted by cnamejj

Using "cpio" will do what you want. I've used command strings similar to this one (taken from your example) more times than I can count.

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cd /home/cpm186/public_html
find . -depth -print | cpio -pvmd /home/cpm923/subdomains/example

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doesn't that preserve the original permissions, not assign the new ownership requested?

maybe i misunderstand.

you could do this w/an rsync command to the local system, as the new user, e.g.:

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rsync -av /home/cpm186/public_html cpm923@localhost:/home/cpm923/subdomains/example

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you'll be prompted for a password, if you don't have SSH key pairs up and running. you ought to set up the keys, if you do this regularly. especially if you want to scrip it (run non-interactively).

Edit: Oh, I see what the OP meant now! I thought he wanted to run it as some other non-root user. if running as root, yeah cpio is good. you could also use rsync with the --owner and --group options....