Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:52:43 -0500 From: David_Gadoury@ccnotes.ccity.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: tar question Message-ID: <852568A4.006C7023.00@danube.ccity.com>
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what exactly does the following command do. (how does it work) tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) i understand what the following parts do tar cf cd /usr/var tar xf i understand to a degree that | runs the first part through the second. i asked the local linux guy here and he wasn't exactly sure how it worked. he said something about the - being standard input or output but he couldn't remember which. i hate typing in commands w/o knowing what they do. thanks for answering such a simplistic question To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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