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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: using tar
To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey)
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 06:44:41 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960810004936.774A-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Aug 10, 96 00:52:39 am
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Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> I want to use tar to move a directory hierarchy, but I want to do it
> without using a temp directory, and I don't know the syntax to make tar
> create an archive to stdout, then read from stdout to extract the acrchive
> elsewhere.  Anyone else know it?  I want to use it to transport something
> from usr/local (not /usr/local, thank goodness) to $(PREFIX).

	cd <source_dir>
	tar cf - | ( cd <dest_dir>; tar xvfBp - )

jmb