cp only files without errors

Dave Stevens geek at uniserve.com
Mon Nov 7 00:28:28 UTC 2016


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?

Dave


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