NAME

       e2cp - copies files from/to an e2fs filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       e2cp [options] files... dest

DESCRIPTION

       The e2cp command copies files to/from an e2fs filesystem from/to the machine's filesystem.

OPTIONS

       A single `-' (dash) can be used instead of a file name to indicate standard input/output.

       -0     Input lines terminated by a null character.

       -a     Absolute  directory  names  -  create  directories instead of just copying into the
              destination. Only valid for copying into an ext2fs filesystem.

       -d dest_dir
              Destination of files to be copied. May be in the  ext2fs  filesystem  or  the  host
              filesystem.

       -G gid Set the default group to gid.

       -O uid Set the default file owner to uid.

       -p     Preserve host file attributes (permissions, times, etc.) when copying files.

       -P mode
              Set the file permissions (ie 755, 666).

       -s src_dir
              The source of the files to be copied.

       -v     Be verbose.

EXAMPLES

       Copy a file and use the default permission and ownership of the current user:

           e2cp README.txt /tmp/boot.img:/tmp

       Do the same thing, but keep permissions & ownership:

           e2cp -p README.txt /tmp/boot.img:/tmp

       Dump a file to standard out:

           e2cp /tmp/boot.img:/tmp/README.txt - | wc

       Get a file from standard input and put it on an unmounted partition:

           tar cf - /data/logs|gzip| e2cp - /dev/hdb1:/backup/logs.tar.gz

       Copy  the  files  from  one directory and put them under another directory on an unmounted
       partition, keeping the original paths, permissions & ownership:

           find /data -type f |tee filelist | e2cp -apv -d /dev/hdb1:/mirror

       Copy files from a directory on an unmounted partition to a  local  directory  (Note:  this
       does  not  recreate  the directories in the local filesystem, yet).  The list of files are
       read from standard input:

           e2cp -pv -s /dev/hdb1:/mirror -d /data2 < filelist

       Copy a file to a file system and make the group and ownership root

           e2cp -G 0 -O 0 myfile /tmp/boot.img/boot/rootfile

SEE ALSO

       e2tools(7), e2ln(1), e2ls(1), e2mkdir(1), e2mv(1), e2rm(1), e2tail(1).

AUTHOR

       The e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>.

       This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but
       may be used by others).