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From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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David Schultz wrote this message on Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 23:15 -0500:
> 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.

then try:
(cd srcdir; tar cf - .) | (cd destdir; tar xpf - )

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