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Subject: Problems with piped tar
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Hi,

i'm quite often use tar to copy files using

tar cf - /some/dir | (cd /dest/dir; tar xvvf - )

the files are copied without a problem but the reading tar never
terminates and so the whole command never terminates.

This is new since FreeBSD 10.

Regards
   Estartu


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