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       "Re: using tar" (Aug 10, 10:28am)
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Subject: Re: using tar
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On Aug 10, 10:28am, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
} As Chuck Robey wrote:
} > I want to use tar to move a directory hierarchy, but I want to do it
} Aside from the responses you've got regarding tar, here's the same
} with cpio:
} 	cd /from/dir
} 	find . <further restrictions if desired> -print | cpio -dump /to/dir
} (The ``-dump'' is actually a combination of separate options, but easy
} to memorize this way. :)

I've memorized a similar set of cpio flags as -pdlmuv (poodle move ;-)
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