cp: add an option to only copy the file attributes

[platform/upstream/coreutils.git] / doc / coreutils.texi

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 5c2bd1a..21cf36d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -7357,6 +7357,12 @@ Try to preserve SELinux security context and extended attributes (xattr),
 but ignore any failure to do that and print no corresponding diagnostic.
 Equivalent to @option{-dR --preserve=all} with the reduced diagnostics.
 
+@itemx --attributes-only
+@opindex --attributes-only
+Preserve the specified attributes of the original files in the copy,
+but do not copy any data.  See the @option{--preserve} option for
+controlling which attributes to copy.
+
 @item -b
 @itemx @w{@kbd{--backup}[=@var{method}]}
 @opindex -b