Garance A Drosehn wrote:

I *thought* what this thread was asking was for someone
to add some new option to `cp', where that new option

It's a thread about several options to cp.

would do the above.  But I was wrong with that, and
apparently people would be happy with a new option which
says "sparse-ify the file".

Are you referring to the inablity to distinguish files with intentional NUL bytes and sparse files? Because of that, "copy sparse files as sparse files" and "sparsify files" are the same operation.


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