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Stdio.cp()


Method cp

int cp(string from, string to)

Description

Copies the file from to the new position to . If there is no system function for cp, a new file will be created and the old one copied manually in chunks of 65536 bytes. This function can also copy directories recursively.

Returns

0 on error, 1 on success

Note

This function keeps file and directory permissions unlike in Pike 7.6 and earlier

Module reference for Pike v7.8 release 116, 2008-12-31