Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:01:09 -0600 From: Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system Message-ID: <200503300701.09895.craig@xfoil.gank.org> In-Reply-To: <200503301139.j2UBdMp5016442@dungeon.home> References: <20050327223238.GA749@polands.org> <20050329062550.GA69824@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <200503301139.j2UBdMp5016442@dungeon.home>
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On Wednesday 30 March 2005 5:39 am, Stephen McKay wrote: > Still, if you are using tar, be sure to use it correctly: > > ( cd srcdir && tar cf - . ) | ( cd destdir && tar xpf - ) > > You don't want it going off in the current directory and mangling things > just because of a little typo in a directory name. I wonder, how does this compare to using cpio -p? cd srcdir && find -d . -print0 | cpio -p -0d /absolute/destdir (other than tar's syntax being easier to remember than cpio) gtar used to have problems with truncating device nodes to 16 bits; not that it's as much of an issue in the modern era with devfs. Craig
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