parrot_cp(1)

💖 parrot_cp — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is parrot_cp(1), a manual page from the Cooperative Computing Tools, and it's literally the glow-up of cp you didn't know you needed. stay with me, it's not that deep 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

parrot_cp — a replacement for cp that provides higher performance when dealing with remote files via parrot_run.

no cap. it's cp but faster when your files live far, far away. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

parrot_cp [options] ... sources ... <dest>

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So parrot_cp is a drop-in replacement for the Unix cp command. Like, you can just swap it in and nobody will notice. 🙈

The whole point? It gives you better performance when copying files to or from remote storage systems, because it takes advantage of whole-file transfer rather than copying files block-by-block.

it's giving "why copy it in tiny lil pieces when you could just send the whole thing at once" and honestly? iconic. ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -f, --force — Forcibly remove target before copying. no asking, no mercy 💀
• -i, --interactive — Interactive mode: ask before overwriting. it's polite, it checks in first 🥺
• -r — Same as -R. that's it, that's the whole flag.
• -R, --recursive — Recursively copy directories. folders inside folders inside folders, we go all the way down 🌀
• -s, --symlinks — Make symbolic links instead of copying files.
• -l, --hardlinks — Make hard links instead of copying files.
• -u, --update-only — Update mode: Copy only if source is newer than target. lowkey a time-saver fr fr ⏰
• -v, --version — Verbose mode: Show names of files copied. (yes bestie, the long form is literally --version and it's verbose mode, that's just how it is, iykyk 🙈)
• -h, --help — Help: Show these options.

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👑 EXIT STATUS 👑

On success, returns zero. On failure, returns non-zero.

that's it. zero = slay, non-zero = something went sideways 😭

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

You can either call the code directly:

% parrot_run tcsh
% parrot_cp /tmp/mydata /chirp/server.nd.edu/joe/data
% exit

or alias calls to cp with calls to parrot_cp:

% parrot_run bash
% alias cp parrot_cp
% cp -r /chirp/server.nd.edu/joe /tmp/joe
% exit

okay the alias one is genuinely main character energy 👑 you literally just make cp be parrot_cp and then forget it ever happened.

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

The Cooperative Computing Tools are Copyright (C) 2005-2019 The University of Notre Dame. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for details.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• Cooperative Computing Tools Documentation
• Parrot User Manual
• parrot_run(1) parrot_cp(1) parrot_getacl(1) parrot_setacl(1) parrot_mkalloc(1) parrot_lsalloc(1) parrot_locate(1) parrot_timeout(1) parrot_whoami(1) parrot_mount(1) parrot_md5(1) parrot_package_create(1) parrot_package_run(1) chroot_package_run(1)

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that's the whole page bestie, you ate it 💅 mwah! this lil masterpiece is CCTools 8.0.0 DEVELOPMENT — the parrot_cp(1) manual page. go forth and copy things the fast way 🦋💖✨