On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 06:25:28PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Note that the piped tar trick does you pretty well: > > $ tar cvf . | ( cd newpath; tar xvf - ) > > ...too, tar is by default verbose and lets you know what's going on. tar is by default quiet, unless you give it the -v flag ... Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]