Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:28:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: FreeBSD-Ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using tar Message-ID: <199608100828.KAA07481@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960810004936.774A-100000@modem.eng.umd.edu> from Chuck Robey at "Aug 10, 96 00:52:39 am"
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As Chuck Robey wrote: > I want to use tar to move a directory hierarchy, but I want to do it > without using a temp directory, ... Aside from the responses you've got regarding tar, here's the same with cpio: cd /from/dir find . <further restrictions if desired> -print | cpio -dump /to/dir (The ``-dump'' is actually a combination of separate options, but easy to memorize this way. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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