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From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: mv vs. tar
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Dan Nelson writes:

>A tar pipe will be much faster, since reading and writing will be
>overlapped.
>
>( cd /source ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd destination ; tar xfp - )

eh?  sorry but I think that's nonsense.

--mkb


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