[PLUG] Moving Files

Russell Senior seniorr at aracnet.com
Thu May 29 17:40:02 UTC 2003


>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Van Cleve <jason at vancleve.com> writes:

Russell> tar -C <srcdir> -cl . | tar -C <destdir> -xpv

Jason> Hmm, kludgy but it might do the trick.  Thanks, Mr. S.  I've
Jason> put my Humpty Dumpty back together now, but I'm making a note
Jason> of this for next time.

Kludgy?  As far as I know, before rsync this was _the_ way to copy
filesystem trees.


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Russell Senior          ``Rome is strangling my people and my country... the
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                          the world has never heard before.'' -- Ben Hur




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