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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