cp only files without errors

[Peter Silva]

rsynv -av <source> <dest>

might be better... --ignore-errors.. on further reading, probably does
not do what you want.


On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Peter Silva <peter at bsqt.homeip.net> wrote:
> rsync --ignore-errors <source> <dest>
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> On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
>> I recently had to copy an NTFS volume from a dead Windows laptop. I mounted
>> it and copied (using cp) about 250K files to an external volume. There were
>> several files for which errors were present and for each I had to answer
>> "skip" at a prompt. I would much rather specify something like "skip on
>> error" just once at the beginning but don't see how. Anyone?
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>> Dave
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