t.copy(1grass)

💖 t.copy — the glow-up dupe for your space time datasets 💖

okay bestie, welcome to t.copy from the GRASS User's Manual ✨ this one's a lil icon in the temporal toolkit and honestly? she ate.

🌸 NAME 🌸

t.copy — makes a copy of a space time raster dataset. periodt 💅

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🎀 KEYWORDS 🎀

temporal, copy, time — yes she's filed under all three, very organized of her 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

t.copy
t.copy --help
t.copy [-c] input=name  [type=name]  output=name  [--overwrite]
[--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]  [--ui]

🦋 Flags:

• -c — also copies the maps of the space-time dataset 💖 heads up tho: by default the old maps are only registered in the new dataset, so if you actually want the map files themselves duplicated, this is the flag, no cap.
• --overwrite — lets output files overwrite files that already exist 👑 dangerous lil queen, use wisely
• --help — prints the usage summary 🙈
• --verbose — verbose module output, she'll tell you everything
• --quiet — quiet module output, she'll tell you nothing 🤫
• --ui — forces the GUI dialog to launch 🖥️✨

🌈 Parameters:

• input=name [required] — name of the input space time dataset (the one you're copying, duh)
• type=name — type of the input space time dataset
  • Options: strds, str3ds, stvds
  • Default: strds
• output=name [required] — name of the output space time dataset (the new baddie you're creating)

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so the whole ~purpose~ of t.copy is to make a copy of a space time dataset. that's it. that's the job. and she does it flawlessly 💅

the new space time dataset lands in the current mapset, but the old one can chill in a different mapset as long as that mapset is in the search path. so like, she's flexible, she's well-traveled, she gets around 🌍

now here's the tea: if you pass the -c flag, the maps of the old space time dataset also get copied over to the current mapset 🫶 but if you don't pass it, the original maps are just simply registered in the temporal database — no files moved, just vibes recorded 📝

and the new copies? same name as the old maps. no renaming, no rebranding, keeping it consistent, queen behavior 👑

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🔥 NOTES 🔥

a fully qualified name for the input space-time dataset is only required if space-time datasets with the same name exist in different mapsets. otherwise bestie, keep it simple, just the name ✨ iykyk

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🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

in the North Carolina sample dataset, with the separately available mapset modis_lst included, we're copying the space-time raster dataset LST_Day_monthly@modis_lst to the current mapset user1. watch her work 😭💖

g.mapsets mapset=modis_lst operation=add
t.copy input=LST_Day_monthly@modis_lst type=strds output=LST_Day_monthly

look at that. clean. iconic. no notes 🌟

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole squad, go show them love too:

• t.rast.extract
• t.rast3d.extract
• t.vect.extract
• t.info

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Markus Metz, mundialis — thank you for this absolute gift, we are forever grateful 🫶

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🧚 SOURCE CODE 🧚

Available at: t.copy source code (history)

Latest change: Friday Feb 07 19:16:09 2025 in commit: a82a39f673b97fafcfce1604dc3e6015cb96487a

Main index | Temporal index | Topics index | Keywords index | Graphical index | Full index

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and that's the whole page bestie, you're officially a t.copy scholar now 🎓✨

okay byeee, this was t.copy(1grass) from the GRASS 8.5.0 Reference Manual, © 2003-2026 GRASS Development Team — GRASS 8.5.0, mwah 💋 slay, go copy some datasets responsibly 🌈💖