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From: "Passki, Jonathan P" <jpasski@kpmg.com>
To: "'martian@t-online.de'" <martian@t-online.de>,
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Subject: RE: how to copy directory and contents?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:48:39 -0400
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Or I find doing this very common command helpful on large data moves:

cd /<source_dir_and_all_below_it>
tar cf - . | (cd /<remote_dir>; tar xf -)

It'll may beat up on the processor and memory, and if it doesn't swap =
too
much, I think it would transfer less data in the move because of the
tarring.  This saves wear and tear on your drives and disk system.

Jon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: martian@t-online.de [mailto:martian@t-online.de]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 11:44
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: how to copy directory and contents?
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> On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:18:20PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
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> > * Murray <mgd@brutus.converging.net> [000921 15:01] wrote:
> > > How do you copy a directory? I have used cp to copy=20
> files, but I am
> > > not sure about copying a directory and all the files within.=20
> >=20
> > please read the manual page for cp.
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> > "man cp"
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> > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
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> or try
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> cp -r sourcedir targetdir
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