From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 5 22:20:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 724DD106564A for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 22:20:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f42.google.com (mail-ww0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 066728FC0C for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 22:20:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf22 with SMTP id 22so3526357wwf.1 for ; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:20:47 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.89.5 with SMTP id bk5mr3802634wib.60.1320531647782; Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.81.193 with HTTP; Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:20:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <44d3d6paww.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <44ty6insu2.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 15:20:47 -0700 Message-ID: From: Michael Sierchio To: Chris Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:20:49 -0000 On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Chris wrote: > I apologize for the lack of detail. The command I'm using is: > ( cd /usr/local/etc/transmission/home/Downloads/ ; tar cf - . ) | ( cd > /mnt/usb ; tar xf - ) Show, don't tell. What does tar report when you run it?