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Tuesday 30 May 2006 19:23 skrev Hamish Marson: |
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> Just be careful with this one. If the destination directory doesn't |
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> exist, then you'll overwrite the sourcefiles with the first block... |
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> Ooops... (Having said that, it's still my favourite way of copying |
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> lots of files from one place to another). |
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That's why it should be like this: |
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# cd /sourcedir && tar -cpf - . | (cd /destdir && tar -xvpf -) |
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Then it will fail and abort if any of the cd operations fails. Also the |
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destdir should be given either as an absolute path or relative to the |
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sourcedir (not relative to whatever your path is when you issue the command |
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above. |
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With GNU tar one can simply do this: |
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# tar -C /sourcedir -cpf - . | tar -C /destdir -xvpf - |
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Bo Andresen |
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