[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] mythtv/master commit: 1b66c0422 by Chris Pinkham (cpinkham)

[Ryan Patterson]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:58 PM, MythTV <noreply at mythtv.org> wrote:
>      Author:  Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at mythtv.org>
>  Change Date:  2011-10-07T19:47:18-07:00
>   Push Date:  2011/10/07 19:58:22 -0700
>  Repository:  mythtv
>      Branch:  master
> New Revision:  1b66c042236478d09c98d1b6cefa3d42717d4126
>   Changeset:  https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commit/1b66c0422
>
> Log:
>
> Add a mythutil binary as a place to consolidate helper utilities
> . . .
>
> It also adds the following new functions:
> --copyfile (to copy a file to or from a Storage Group between a
>            myth:// URI and a local file or between two myth:// URIs)
>
> mythutil --copyfile --srcfile myth://host/file.mpg --destfile ./file.mpg

Questions. . .

Is this truly a copy routine?  ie. It makes a duplicate and leaves the
original in place.  Maybe I'm just not seeing the use case.  Wouldn't
a routine that moves the file (and removes the original) be more
useful?

-Ryan