Copy files from read only fs as writable

[Mike McCarty]

Jonathan Berry wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Is there a way that I can make files from a read only file system copy
> over as writable?  I have an NTFS partition (I think the same thing
> happens with, say, a CD) mounted read only and whenever I copy files
> over from it, they are given permissions that exclude the write bit. 
> This is mostly just annoying, but I was wondering if there was some
> way to have it automatically set the user writable bit when copying it
> over.  Preferably a mount option so that it just works.  Any ideas?
> 
> Jonathan
> 

Reading the man page for cp indicates that --no-preserve=mode
might do what you want.

Mike
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