Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 02:29:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu> To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee (Narvi) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org (FreeBSD ports list) Subject: Re: using tar Message-ID: <199608100929.CAA01408@relay.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960810120555.13368M-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> from Narvi at "Aug 10, 96 12:08:35 pm"
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> > > I want to use tar to move a directory hierarchy, but I want to do it
> > > without using a temp directory, and I don't know the syntax to make tar
> > > create an archive to stdout, then read from stdout to extract the acrchive
> >
> > tar -cf - -C $SRCDIR . | tar xpf - -C $DESTDIR
> >
> > Will do the trick.
>
> Why not just mv $SRCDIR $DESTDIR? Yes, if $DESTDIR exist you will have to
> write a for $i in ...; do mv $i $DESTDIR; done?
Many mv's can't move a directory structure across devices (read disk
partitions) because of the limitations of rename(2). Thus you can only
use mv if $SRCDIR and $DESTDIR are on the same partition.
For instance, GNU's mv gives:
mv: cannot move `foo' across filesystems: Not a regular file
-- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)
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