From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 10 01:54:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA23486 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 01:54:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA23469 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 01:54:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id BAA02357 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 01:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA23641; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:50:54 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA07281; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:50:54 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA07481; Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:28:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608100828.KAA07481@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: using tar To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:28:16 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: FreeBSD-Ports@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Aug 10, 96 00:52:39 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Chuck Robey wrote: > I want to use tar to move a directory hierarchy, but I want to do it > without using a temp directory, ... Aside from the responses you've got regarding tar, here's the same with cpio: cd /from/dir find . -print | cpio -dump /to/dir (The ``-dump'' is actually a combination of separate options, but easy to memorize this way. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)