An improvement of the Linux "cp" command
Goal of this project is to create a program that copies hierarchies of directories/files fast. The program is called quick incremental copy (quic for short). To do this we have to take advantage of the fact that usually when we copy a hierarchy a big part of it might already exist unmodified. The program identifies and manages different types of entities to make the exact same copy of a specified directory to a destination path. Each entity is copied over using read write syscalls. Also, a "map", that maps all links, is created for their correct recreation.
Enter the make command while in the /Better-Linux-Copy/ directory.
Type ./quic while in the project's directory
You can give the following arguments in the command line:
origindir : The source directory.
destdir : The destination directory.
-v : Verbose flag that provides logging of the program actions.
-d : Delete flag that deletes entities that exist in the destination but not in the source directory.
-l : Links flag that determines whether links will be handled.
- This is a fifth semester assignment, by professor A. Delis, for the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, UoA. It was a part of the Operating Systems course and was given as the fourth and final assignment.