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NAME
     //uussrr//bbiinn//CCppMMaacc - copy files preserving metadata and forks

SYNOPSIS
     //uussrr//bbiinn//CCppMMaacc [-rrpp] [-mmaacc] source target
     //uussrr//bbiinn//CCppMMaacc [-rrpp] [-mmaacc] source ... directory

DESCRIPTION
     In its first form, the //uussrr//bbiinn//CCppMMaacc utility copies the contents of the
     file named by the source operand to the destination path named by the
     target operand.  This form is assumed when the last operand does not name
     an already existing directory.

     In its second form, //uussrr//bbiinn//CCppMMaacc copies each file named by a source op-
     erand to a destination directory named by the directory operand.  The
     destination path for each operand is the pathname produced by the con-
     catenation of the last operand, a slash, and the final pathname component
     of the named file.

     The following options are available:

     -rr    If source designates a directory, //uussrr//bbiinn//CCppMMaacc copies the direc-
           tory and the entire subtree connected at that point.  This option
           also causes symbolic links to be copied, rather than indirected
           through, and for //uussrr//bbiinn//CCppMMaacc to create special files rather than
           copying them as normal files.  Created directories have the same
           mode as the corresponding source directory, unmodified by the
           process' umask.

     -pp    Causes //uussrr//bbiinn//CCppMMaacc to preserve in the copy as many of the modi-
           fication time, access time, file flags, file mode, user ID, and
           group ID as allowed by permissions.

     -mmaacc  Allows use of HFS-style paths for both source and target.  Path
           elements must be separated by colons, and the path must begin with
           a volume name or a colon (to designate current directory).

NNOOTTEESS
     The //uussrr//bbiinn//CCppMMaacc command does not support the same options as the POSIX
     ccpp command, and is much less flexible in its operands.  It cannot be used
     as a direct substitute for ccpp in scripts.

     As of Mac OS X 10.4, the ccpp command preserves metadata and resource forks
     of files on Extended HFS volumes, so it can be used in place of CCppMMaacc.
     The //uussrr//bbiinn//CCppMMaacc command will be deprecated in future versions of Mac
     OS X.

SEE ALSO
     cp(1) MvMac(1)

Mac OS X                        April 12, 2004                        Mac OS X