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PMLOGMV(1) General Commands Manual PMLOGMV(1)
pmlogmv - move (rename) Performance Co-Pilot archive files
pmlogmv [-NV] oldname newname
A Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) archive consists of multiple files as
created by pmlogger(1). pmlogmv allows all the files of a single PCP
archive to be moved or renamed as a group in a single operation.
The oldname argument identifies the target archive, and may be either
the basename that is common to all files in that archive or one of
the archive's files. The new archive's basename is newname.
The -N option performs a dry-run, checking and reporting what changes
would be made without making any changes.
Additional reporting verbosity may be requested with the -V option.
Because PCP archives are important records of system activity,
special care is taken to ensure the integrity of an archive's files.
For recoverable problems encountered during the execution of pmlogmv,
all the files associated with oldname will be preserved, and no new
files with the newname prefix will be created. ``Recoverable
problems'' include signals that can be caught (such as SIGHUP,
SIGINT, SIGQUIT and SIGTERM), permissions issues, new files already
existing, file system full events, etc.
The implementation of pmlogmv uses hard links in the file system and
so follows the semantic restrictions of ln(2) which for most systems
means the directories containing both the oldname and the newname PCP
archive files need to be writeable and within the same file system.
ln(2) and pmlogger(1).
All error and warning messages are intended to be easily understood
and errors produce a non-zero exit status.
This page is part of the PCP (Performance Co-Pilot) project.
Information about the project can be found at ⟨http://www.pcp.io/⟩.
If you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
pcp@oss.sgi.com. This page was obtained from the project's upstream
Git repository ⟨git://git.pcp.io/pcp⟩ on 2017-07-05. If you discover
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Pages that refer to this page: pmgetopt(1), pmlogger_check(1)