Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:12:32 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: brian@aljex.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system Message-ID: <12938.1112080352@bizet.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:56:14 -0500" References: <02e501c5342c$75bca5b0$6800000a@venti>
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> > Brian missed a pair of parenthenis. The example should read: > > > > ( cd srcdir ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd destdir ; tar xpf - ) > > All the first perens does is leave you sitting wherever you were before > starting, whereas my example would have left you sitting in srcdir. > It makes no functional difference in the tar/untar job itself. > > In truth, my example was from something I do all the time on SCO and is in > sco's tar man page but it's such basic shell and tar usage that it works the > same everywhere. I do it on Linux and FreeBSD too and I just verified on a > 5.3 box just to make sure instead of relying on memory and common sense. It's still in my fingers too, used it for many years. Lately I have been using cp -pR for the same job. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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