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1 gcp v0.1 |
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2 (c) Jérôme Poisson aka Goffi 2010 |
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4 gcp (Goffi's cp) is a files copier. |
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7 ** LICENSE ** |
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9 gcp is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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10 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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11 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
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12 (at your option) any later version. |
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14 gcp is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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15 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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16 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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17 GNU General Public License for more details. |
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19 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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20 along with gcp. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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24 ** WTF ? ** |
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25 gcp is a file copier, loosely inspired from cp, but with high level functionnalities like: |
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26 - progression indicator |
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27 - gcp continue coping even when there is an issue: he just skip the file with problem, and go on |
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28 - journalization: gcp write what he is doing, this allow to now which files where effectively copied |
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29 - fixing names to be compatible with the target filesystem (e.g. removing incompatible chars like "?" or "*" on vfat) |
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30 - if you launch a copy when an other is already running, the files are added to the first queue, this avoir you hard drive to move its head all the time |
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31 - 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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32 - gcp will be approximately option-compatible with cp (approximately because the behaviour is not exactly the same, see below) |
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34 /!\ WARNING /!\ |
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35 gcp is at an early stage of development, and really experimental: use at your own risks ! |
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37 ** How to use it ? ** |
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38 Pretty much like cp (see gcp --help). |
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39 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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40 gcp doesn't implement yet all the options from cp, but it's planed. |
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42 ** What's next ? ** |
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44 Several improvment are already planed: |
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45 - copy queue management (moving copy order) |
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46 - advanced console interface |
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47 - notification (xmpp and maybe mail) when a long copy is finished |
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48 - retry for files which where not correctly copied |
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49 - badly encoded unicode filenames fix |
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51 ... and other are with a "maybe" |
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52 - graphic interface |
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53 - desktop (Kde, Gnome, XFCE, ...) integration |
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55 ** Credits ** |
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57 A big big thank to the authors/contributors of... |
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59 progressbar: |
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60 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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62 GLib: |
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63 This heavily used library is used here for the main loop and event catchins, and for DBus also |
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65 DBus: |
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66 This excellent IPC is in the heart of gcp |
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68 python and its amazing standard library: |
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69 gcp was coded quickly for my own need thanks to this excellent and efficient language and its really huge standard library. |
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71 If I forgot any credit, please contact me (mail below) to fix it. |
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74 ** Contact ** |
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76 You can contact me at goffi@goffi.org . |
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77 You'll find the latest version on my website: http://www.goffi.org (it's mainly in french, I will probably make a little part in english in the future). |
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78 You can also have a look to my other main projects (and maybe to the smaller ones too ;) ): |
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79 - lm (list movie): a tool to list movies using IMdB data, loosely inspired from ls |
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80 - SàT: my main project, a jabber/XMPP client, which is a brick to many others things I have in mind |
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82 Don't hesitate to give feedback :) |
