[PLUG] OK, GUI file managers all suck

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Wed Jun 28 15:45:50 UTC 2006


On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Lancashire, Pete wrote:

> or ..
> 
> % cd /source; tar cf - . | (cd /destination && tar xBpf -)

Assuming GNU tar, it can be a bit shorter than that:

  tar cC /source . | tar xC /destination

The lacking a -f switch, the default is to pipe to stdin and from 
stdout; the -C switch removes the need to cd to a directory.

I think -p is the default, though it assumes that root is performing 
the process.

I don't know what the advantage to -B is. Clues, anyone?

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