[TriLUG] cp and a new fs, eg ntfs

Aaron Schrab aaron at schrab.com
Sat Jul 31 13:14:18 EDT 2010


At 12:46 -0400 31 Jul 2010, "Scott G. Hall" <ScottGHall at BellSouth.Net> wrote:
> 'cp' is usually implemented as a built-in to each shell
> rather than as a separate utility

I'm not aware of any shells that have cp as a builtin.  I just checked 
for bash, zsh, tcsh, and ksh and none of those did.  Even busybox's sh 
doesn't list cp as a builtin even though it is part of the same binary.



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