[PLUG] Proper way to copy directories

Fedor Pikus fpikus at gmail.com
Wed Dec 22 19:14:57 UTC 2004


On 22 Dec 2004 10:59:57 -0800, Russell Senior <seniorr at aracnet.com> wrote:
>   c) with the tar-to-tar, it is important *not* to include the verbose
>   option on the first tar.  You are depending on standard input/output
>   to move your data.  It is not likely to be pretty if you include the
>   verbose information in that stream.
Nah, verbose option does not hurt anything. You can specify it on one
or both tar's, but if you do both the output is kind of messy, you get
every line twice.
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