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To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: using tar 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 Aug 1996 00:52:39 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 22:18:37 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 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

I was all prepared to flame you for not RTFM'ing first when I noticed
that both the tar man page and `tar --help' don't document this in
their descriptions of the -f flag.  For Shame.

	tar -cf - -C $SRCDIR . | tar xpf - -C $DESTDIR

Will do the trick.

					Jordan