GNU bug report logs - #31712
cp --attributes-only

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: kalle <kalle <at> projektwerkstatt.de>

Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 13:23:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: kalle <kalle <at> projektwerkstatt.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: cp --attributes-only
Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 09:54:18 +0200

hello,
I have coreutils 8.26
and the option

cp --attributes only FILE OTHERFILE

correctly doesn't copy the content of FILE,
but the modification time of OTHERFILE is the actual date, whereas I
understood that it should be the same as in FILE.

kalle
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