Re: tar, cpio, or cp?
Lorens Kockum wrote:
> 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).
>
> Huh? What about files beginning with a '.' that are not expanded by the
> '*'? That's just to begin with ... use cpio.
The asterisk was perhaps a bad example. This works for me (including all
dot files):
tar cf /path | ( cd other/path ; tar xvf -)
Some people add a bunch of other flags to tar.
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