Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:03:10 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: "Brian K. White" <brian@aljex.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system Message-ID: <20050328150310.GB67470@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <010401c53385$584a04c0$6800000a@venti> References: <20050327223238.GA749@polands.org> <010401c53385$584a04c0$6800000a@venti>
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 05:59:59AM -0500, Brian K. White wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> > To: "Doug Barton" <DougB@freebsd.org> > Cc: <current@freebsd.org> > Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 5:32 PM > Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system > > > >On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 06:16:24PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > >>On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Doug Poland wrote: > >> > >>>There are some examples in the gtar man page that would be nice to have > >>>in bsdtar. > >> > >>Given that "some examples" have already been implemented, I think we're > >>covered here. :) If you want something more specific, you'll have to > >>provide a little more information. > >> > >OK, the example I cannot live without... > > > > > > To move file hierarchies, use a command line like this: > > > > tar -cf - -C srcdir . | tar xpf - -C destdir > > Why not? > Isn't that just a slight convenience for this?: > cd srcdir ; tar cf - . |( cd destdir ; tar xpf - ) > > It looks equivalent saying you cannot live without -j or -z ? > now if "cd" ever decides to eat even one character from stdin that'd be > different :) > I can't remember the syntactical variations of using tar to move directory hierarchies. I can, however, remember that the man page for tar has a working example ;) -- Regards, Doug
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