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gcp v0.1.2
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(c) Jérôme Poisson aka Goffi 2010, 2011
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gcp (Goffi's cp) is a files copier.
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** LICENSE **
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gcp is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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gcp is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with gcp. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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** WTF ? **
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gcp is a file copier, loosely inspired from cp, but with high level functionalities like:
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- progression indicator
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- gcp continue copying even when there is an issue: he just skip the file with problem, and go on
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- journalization: gcp write what he is doing, this allow to know which files were effectively copied
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- fixing names to be compatible with the target filesystem (e.g. removing incompatible chars like "?" or "*" on vfat)
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- if you launch a copy when an other is already running, the files are added to the first queue, this avoid your hard drive to move its read/write head all the time
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- files saving: you can keep track of files you have copied, and re-copy them later (useful when, for example, you always copy some free music to all your friends).
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- gcp will be approximately option-compatible with cp (approximately because the behaviour is not exactly the same, see below)
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/!\ WARNING /!\
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gcp is at an early stage of development, and really experimental: use at your own risks !
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** How to use it ? **
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Pretty much like cp (see gcp --help).
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Please note that the behaviour is not exactly the same as cp, even if gcp want to be option-compatible. Mainly, the destination filenames can be changed (by default, can be deactivated).
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gcp doesn't implement yet all the options from cp, but it's planed.
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** journalizaion **
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The journal is planed to be used by gcp itself, buts remains human-readable. It is located in ~/.gcp/journal
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3 states are used:
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- OK means the file is copied and all operation were successful
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- PARTIAL means the file is copied, but something went wrong (e.g. changing the permissions of the file)
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- FAILED: the file is *not* copied
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after the state, a list of things which went wront are show, separated by ", "
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** What's next ? **
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Several improvment are already planed
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- copy queue management (moving copy order)
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- advanced console interface
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- notification (xmpp and maybe mail) when a long copy is finished
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- retry for files which were not correctly copied
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- badly encoded unicode filenames fix
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- file copy integrity check
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... and other are with a "maybe"
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- graphic interface
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- desktop (Kde, Gnome, XFCE, ...) integration
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- distant copy (ftp)
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- basic server mode, for copying files on network without the need of nfs or other heavy stuff
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** Credits **
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A big big thank to the authors/contributors of...
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progressbar:
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gcp use ProgressBar (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/progressbar/2.2), a class coded by Nilton Volpato which allow the textual representation of progression.
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GLib:
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This heavily used library is used here for the main loop, event catching, and for DBus. Get it at http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/
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DBus:
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This excellent IPC is in the heart of gcp. Get more information at www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus
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python and its amazing standard library:
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gcp was coded quickly for my own need thanks to this excellent and efficient language and its really huge standard library. Python can be download at www.python.org
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If I forgot any credit, please contact me (mail below) to fix it.
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Big thanks to contributors and package mainteners
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** Contributions **
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2011: Thomas Preud'homme <robotux@celest.fr>: manpage, stat resolution fix
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** Contact **
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You can contact me at goffi@goffi.org .
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You'll find the latest version on my ftp: ftp://ftp.goffi.org/gcp, or check the wiki ( http://wiki.goffi.org/wiki/Gcp )
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Please report any bug on http://bugs.goffi.org
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You can also have a look to my other main projects (and maybe to the smaller ones too ;) ):
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- lm (list movie): a tool to list movies using IMdB data, loosely inspired from ls
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- SàT: my main project, a jabber/XMPP client, which is a brick to many others things I have in mind
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Don't hesitate to give feedback :)
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