Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 08:51:24 -0400 From: jspath@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us (Webmaster Jim) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: FreeBSD-Ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using tar Message-ID: <9608101251.AA04430@mail> In-Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) "Re: using tar" (Aug 10, 10:28am)
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On Aug 10, 10:28am, Joerg Wunsch wrote: } As Chuck Robey wrote: } > I want to use tar to move a directory hierarchy, but I want to do it } 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. :) I've memorized a similar set of cpio flags as -pdlmuv (poodle move ;-) -- I don't speak (or work) for the Baltimore County Public Library. They keep telling me, "Shhhhh!"
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