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authorEd Santiago <santiago@redhat.com>2019-03-20 08:15:56 -0600
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man pages - consistency fixes
podman-generate and -play had the wrong NAMEs. podman-restart and -volume-prune the wrong SYNOPSIS. All the rest are varying degrees of minor: - missing a space between the NAME and description - multi-line SYNOPSIS that could be collapsed into one - use of UPPER CASE in synopsis instead of *asterisks* - improper use of **double asterisks** for options - varlink and version were transposed in podman-1 - fixed inconsistencies between the description in the man page and that in the parent manpage. These are too numerous for me to fix all. Added: script that could be used in CI to prevent future such inconsistencies. It cannot be enabled yet because there are still 35+ inconsistencies in need of cleaning. This will be difficult to review on github. I suggest pulling the PR and running 'git log -1 -p | cdif | less' 'cdif' is a handy tool for colorizing individual diffs between lines: http://kaz-utashiro.github.io/cdif/ There are other such tools; use your favorite. Comparing without visual highlights may be painful. I also encourage you to run hack/man-page-checker and suggest more fixes for the problems it's finding. Signed-off-by: Ed Santiago <santiago@redhat.com>
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podman\-cp - Copy files/folders between a container and the local filesystem
## SYNOPSIS
-**podman cp [CONTAINER:]SRC_PATH [CONTAINER:]DEST_PATH**
+**podman cp** [*container*:]*src_path* [*container*:]*dest_path*
## DESCRIPTION
-Copies the contents of **SRC_PATH** to the **DEST_PATH**. You can copy from the containers's filesystem to the local machine or the reverse, from the local filesystem to the container.
+Copies the contents of **src_path** to the **dest_path**. You can copy from the containers's filesystem to the local machine or the reverse, from the local filesystem to the container.
-The CONTAINER can be a running or stopped container. The **SRC_PATH** or **DEST_PATH** can be a file or directory.
+The CONTAINER can be a running or stopped container. The **src_path** or **dest_path** can be a file or directory.
The **podman cp** command assumes container paths are relative to the container's / (root) directory.
@@ -20,36 +20,36 @@ The command sees **compassionate_darwin:/tmp/foo/myfile.txt** and **compassionat
Local machine paths can be an absolute or relative value.
The command interprets a local machine's relative paths as relative to the current working directory where **podman cp** is run.
-Assuming a path separator of /, a first argument of **SRC_PATH** and second argument of **DEST_PATH**, the behavior is as follows:
+Assuming a path separator of /, a first argument of **src_path** and second argument of **dest_path**, the behavior is as follows:
-**SRC_PATH** specifies a file
- - **DEST_PATH** does not exist
- - the file is saved to a file created at **DEST_PATH**
- - **DEST_PATH** does not exist and ends with /
- - **DEST_PATH** is created as a directory and the file is copied into this directory using the basename from **SRC_PATH**
- - **DEST_PATH** exists and is a file
+**src_path** specifies a file
+ - **dest_path** does not exist
+ - the file is saved to a file created at **dest_path**
+ - **dest_path** does not exist and ends with /
+ - **dest_path** is created as a directory and the file is copied into this directory using the basename from **src_path**
+ - **dest_path** exists and is a file
- the destination is overwritten with the source file's contents
- - **DEST_PATH** exists and is a directory
- - the file is copied into this directory using the basename from **SRC_PATH**
+ - **dest_path** exists and is a directory
+ - the file is copied into this directory using the basename from **src_path**
-**SRC_PATH** specifies a directory
- - **DEST_PATH** does not exist
- - **DEST_PATH** is created as a directory and the contents of the source directory are copied into this directory
- - **DEST_PATH** exists and is a file
+**src_path** specifies a directory
+ - **dest_path** does not exist
+ - **dest_path** is created as a directory and the contents of the source directory are copied into this directory
+ - **dest_path** exists and is a file
- Error condition: cannot copy a directory to a file
- - **DEST_PATH** exists and is a directory
- - **SRC_PATH** ends with /
+ - **dest_path** exists and is a directory
+ - **src_path** ends with /
- the source directory is copied into this directory
- - **SRC_PATH** ends with /. (that is: slash followed by dot)
+ - **src_path** ends with /. (that is: slash followed by dot)
- the content of the source directory is copied into this directory
-The command requires **SRC_PATH** and **DEST_PATH** to exist according to the above rules.
+The command requires **src_path** and **dest_path** to exist according to the above rules.
-If **SRC_PATH** is local and is a symbolic link, the symbolic target, is copied by default.
+If **src_path** is local and is a symbolic link, the symbolic target, is copied by default.
A colon (:) is used as a delimiter between CONTAINER and its path.
-You can also use : when specifying paths to a **SRC_PATH** or **DEST_PATH** on a local machine, for example, `file:name.txt`.
+You can also use : when specifying paths to a **src_path** or **dest_path** on a local machine, for example, `file:name.txt`.
If you use a : in a local machine path, you must be explicit with a relative or absolute path, for example:
`/path/to/file:name.txt` or `./file:name.txt`