Subject: Re: bug#5947: [PATCH] cp: add an option to only copy the file attributes

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:33:49 +0100

On 14/04/10 17:27, Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> "cp now accepts the --attributes-only option to not copy file data,
>> which is useful for efficiently modifying files."
> 
> is this like `touch -r ...`?

Right, except that it handles
permissions and xattrs as well as timestamps.

cheers,
Pádraig.