Method Stdio.cp()

Method cp

int cp(string from, string to)

Description

Copies the file from to the new position to . If there is no system function for cp, a new file will be created and the old one copied manually in chunks of 65536 bytes.

This function can also copy directories recursively.

Returns

0 on error, 1 on success

Note

This function keeps file and directory mode bits, unlike in Pike 7.6 and earlier.