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E2CP(1) 			  User commands 			 E2CP(1)

NAME
     e2cp - copies files from/to an e2fs filesystem

SYNOPSIS
     e2cp [options] files... dest

DESCRIPTION
     The  e2cp	command  copies files to/from an e2fs filesystem from/to the ma-
     chine's filesystem.

OPTIONS
     A single `-' (dash) can be used instead of a file name to indicate standard
     input/output.

     -0     Input lines terminated by a null character.

     -a     Absolute directory names - create directories instead of just  copy-
	    ing  into  the  destination.  Only	valid for copying into an ext2fs
	    filesystem.

     -d dest_dir
	    Destination of files to be copied. May be in the  ext2fs  filesystem
	    or the host filesystem.

     -G gid
	    Set the default group to gid.

     -O uid
	    Set the default file owner to uid.

     -p     Preserve  host file attributes (permissions, times, etc.) when copy-
	    ing files.

     -P mode
	    Set the file permissions (ie 755, 666).

     -s src_dir
	    The source of the files to be copied.

     -v     Be verbose.

EXAMPLES
     Copy a file and use the default permission and  ownership	of  the  current
     user:

	 e2cp README.txt /tmp/boot.img:/tmp

     Do the same thing, but keep permissions & ownership:

	 e2cp -p README.txt /tmp/boot.img:/tmp

     Dump a file to standard out:

	 e2cp /tmp/boot.img:/tmp/README.txt - | wc

     Get a file from standard input and put it on an unmounted partition:

	 tar cf - /data/logs|gzip| e2cp - /dev/hdb1:/backup/logs.tar.gz

     Copy  the	files from one directory and put them under another directory on
     an unmounted partition, keeping the original paths,  permissions  &  owner-
     ship:

	 find /data -type f |tee filelist | e2cp -apv -d /dev/hdb1:/mirror

     Copy  files from a directory on an unmounted partition to a local directory
     (Note: this does not recreate the	directories  in  the  local  filesystem,
     yet).  The list of files are read from standard input:

	 e2cp -pv -s /dev/hdb1:/mirror -d /data2 < filelist

     Copy a file to a file system and make the group and ownership root

	 e2cp -G 0 -O 0 myfile /tmp/boot.img/boot/rootfile

SEE ALSO
     e2tools(7), e2ln(1), e2ls(1), e2mkdir(1), e2mv(1), e2rm(1), e2tail(1).

AUTHOR
     The e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>.

     This  manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, for the De-
     bian project (but may be used by others).

Linux				   2020-02-05				 E2CP(1)

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