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From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system
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On Mon, Mar 28, 2005, Brian K. White wrote:
> >    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 - )

detsdir: No such file or directory.