Date: 01 Oct 2002 15:16:58 -0700 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copying directories contents Message-ID: <791y79x0rp.y79@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20021001180346.GA39309@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <200210010955.35018.akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> <20021001175837.GF7147@dan.emsphone.com> <20021001180346.GA39309@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> writes:
> > tar cf - user1 user2 user3 user4 | ( cd /destination ; tar xpf - )
>
> To avoid starting an extra shell process you can also do:
>
> tar cf - user1 user2 user3 user4 | tar xpf - -C /destination
Or, if you believe the manual which says -C is "probably untrustworthy"
or want better portability, you could use to do the same:
tar cf - user1 user2 user3 user4 | { cd /destination ; tar xpf - }
> "cp -r" won't work well with symlinks. ("cp" will copy the file the
> symlink points to, while tar will make a new symlink in the destination
> directory.)
But "cp -R" works well with symlinks. There might be other problems.
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