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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: how copy file on linux?
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:35:00 -0700
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Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> writes:
> How to copy a file on linux keeping the original file information?
> timestamp etc?
>
> Or in other words the equivalent of CopyFileA from windows.

comp.unix.programmer is likely to give you better answers.  I don't
think POSIX defines any functions that copy files.

If I uunderstand correctly, you want to do the equivalent of "cp -p",
but from C rather than from a shell.  You might consider using system(),
but that has some drawbacks, and there are probably better ways.

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