Re: linux copying

["Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>]

on Tue, May 13, 2003 at 06:51:12PM +0100, Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote:
> 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 ...

Which I do, by default ;-)

Point Colin.

Peace.

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