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Re: tar, cpio, or cp?



On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 08:58:56PM +0100, Olivier THARAN wrote:
> 
> (cd dir1 && tar cv *) | (cd dir2 && tar xf -)
> which preserves everything (dunno about times however).

Heuh? What about files beginning with a '.' that are not expanded by the
'*'? That's just to begin with ... use cpio.

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