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[Intrusion Detection Account 000 <ids000@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My apologies Ken, for repeating the question. This question was asked I
recall on a KDE/Linux mailing list and everyone advised to ask it in a
different forum

Thanks for your reply

Scott

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 07:32 -0500, Kenneth Schneider wrote: 

> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 20:01 +1000, Intrusion Detection Account 000
> wrote:
> > In DOS there was the ability to verify a singular files integrity by
> > using chkdsk c:/file.dos......The result indicated if the file
> > integrity was so.
> > There was also the ability to set in the Autoexec.bat set verify=ON -
> > which made sure that EVERY file that you copied you did not need to
> > use the verify option C:\file.dos C:\temp\file.dos /v 
> > 
> > My questions are 
> > 1. Is there a global set verify=on in Linux?
> > 2. Is there the ability to verify a single files integrity as above
> > with a similar command such as chkdsk
> > 3. How do I copy a file at the command line and include a verify
> > option.
> > 
> 
> First, asking the same question more then once will not help your cause.
> 
> As to number 3; learn to use info for some of your answers I.E. info cp
> will show at the end the you will get error message if the copy was
> _not_ successful. Every copy is verified and if _not_ successful will
> not complete. To compare two files use the diff command, info diff for
> more information.
>