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.\" Linux libc source code
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.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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.\" 386BSD man pages
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:06:49 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.\" Modified Fri Aug 25 23:17:51 1995 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
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.\" Modified Wed Dec 18 00:47:18 1996 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
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.TH STRCPY 3 1993-04-11 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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strcpy, strncpy \- copy a string
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <string.h>
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.BI "char *strcpy(char *" dest ", const char *" src );
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.sp
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.BI "char *strncpy(char *" dest ", const char *" src ", size_t " n );
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The \fBstrcpy\fP() function copies the string pointed to by \fIsrc\fP
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(including the terminating `\\0' character) to the array pointed to by
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\fIdest\fP. The strings may not overlap, and the destination string
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\fIdest\fP must be large enough to receive the copy.
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.PP
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The \fBstrncpy\fP() function is similar, except that not more than
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\fIn\fP bytes of \fIsrc\fP are copied. Thus, if there is no null byte
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among the first \fIn\fP bytes of \fIsrc\fP, the result will not be
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null-terminated.
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.PP
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In the case where the length of
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.I src
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is less than that of
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.IR n ,
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the remainder of
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.I dest
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will be padded with null bytes.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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The \fBstrcpy\fP() and \fBstrncpy\fP() functions return a pointer to
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the destination string \fIdest\fP.
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.SH BUGS
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If the destination string of a \fBstrcpy\fP() is not large enough
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(that is, if the programmer was stupid/lazy, and failed to check
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the size before copying) then anything might happen.
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Overflowing fixed length strings is a favourite cracker technique.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR bcopy (3),
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.BR memccpy (3),
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.BR memcpy (3),
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.BR memmove (3),
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.BR wcscpy (3),
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.BR wcsncpy (3)
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