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From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it>
To: Murray <mgd@brutus.converging.net>
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Subject: Re: how to copy directory and contents?
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:59:48PM -0600, Murray wrote:
> How do you copy a directory? I have used cp to copy files, but I am
> not sure about copying a directory and all the files within. 
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If you want you can use tar(1) to copy directories. As stated in the
EXAMPLES section of tar man page:

[...]
     To move file hierarchies, use a command line like this:

     tar -cf - -C srcdir . | tar xpf - -C destdir
[...]

		Francesco Casadei


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