From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Aug 9 21:53:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA03333 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 21:53:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA03327 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 21:53:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from modem.eng.umd.edu (modem.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.187]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA04990 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 00:52:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by modem.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA00776 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 00:52:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: modem.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 00:52:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@modem.eng.umd.edu To: FreeBSD Ports Subject: using tar Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I want to use tar to move a directory hierarchy, but I want to do it without using a temp directory, and I don't know the syntax to make tar create an archive to stdout, then read from stdout to extract the acrchive elsewhere. Anyone else know it? I want to use it to transport something from usr/local (not /usr/local, thank goodness) to $(PREFIX). Thanks. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------