// Package copy provides the copy command. package copy import ( "context" "strings" "github.com/rclone/rclone/cmd" "github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/config/flags" "github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/operations" "github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/sync" "github.com/spf13/cobra" ) var ( createEmptySrcDirs = false ) func init() { cmd.Root.AddCommand(commandDefinition) cmdFlags := commandDefinition.Flags() flags.BoolVarP(cmdFlags, &createEmptySrcDirs, "create-empty-src-dirs", "", createEmptySrcDirs, "Create empty source dirs on destination after copy", "") } var commandDefinition = &cobra.Command{ Use: "copy source:path dest:path", Short: `Copy files from source to dest, skipping identical files.`, // Note: "|" will be replaced by backticks below Long: strings.ReplaceAll(` Copy the source to the destination. Does not transfer files that are identical on source and destination, testing by size and modification time or MD5SUM. Doesn't delete files from the destination. If you want to also delete files from destination, to make it match source, use the [sync](/commands/rclone_sync/) command instead. Note that it is always the contents of the directory that is synced, not the directory itself. So when source:path is a directory, it's the contents of source:path that are copied, not the directory name and contents. To copy single files, use the [copyto](/commands/rclone_copyto/) command instead. If dest:path doesn't exist, it is created and the source:path contents go there. For example rclone copy source:sourcepath dest:destpath Let's say there are two files in sourcepath sourcepath/one.txt sourcepath/two.txt This copies them to destpath/one.txt destpath/two.txt Not to destpath/sourcepath/one.txt destpath/sourcepath/two.txt If you are familiar with |rsync|, rclone always works as if you had written a trailing |/| - meaning "copy the contents of this directory". This applies to all commands and whether you are talking about the source or destination. See the [--no-traverse](/docs/#no-traverse) option for controlling whether rclone lists the destination directory or not. Supplying this option when copying a small number of files into a large destination can speed transfers up greatly. For example, if you have many files in /path/to/src but only a few of them change every day, you can copy all the files which have changed recently very efficiently like this: rclone copy --max-age 24h --no-traverse /path/to/src remote: Rclone will sync the modification times of files and directories if the backend supports it. If metadata syncing is required then use the |--metadata| flag. Note that the modification time and metadata for the root directory will **not** be synced. See https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/7652 for more info. **Note**: Use the |-P|/|--progress| flag to view real-time transfer statistics. **Note**: Use the |--dry-run| or the |--interactive|/|-i| flag to test without copying anything. `, "|", "`"), Annotations: map[string]string{ "groups": "Copy,Filter,Listing,Important", }, Run: func(command *cobra.Command, args []string) { cmd.CheckArgs(2, 2, command, args) fsrc, srcFileName, fdst := cmd.NewFsSrcFileDst(args) cmd.Run(true, true, command, func() error { if srcFileName == "" { return sync.CopyDir(context.Background(), fdst, fsrc, createEmptySrcDirs) } return operations.CopyFile(context.Background(), fdst, fsrc, srcFileName, srcFileName) }) }, }