Re: [tlug] The Mother of All (bash) Commands

["Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@example.com>]

On Monday 17 March 2008 20:04, Joe Larabell wrote:
>>    (cd /src ; tar -cf - .) | (cd /dst ; tar -xvpf -)
>
>So long as dst isn't a symlink to src ;-)...
>(Yes, I did that once without thinking. It resulted in a tree full of
>zero-length files -- with permissions properly preserved. Besides, if
>both paths are on the same machine, doesn't 'cp -a' do just as well?)

Ouch. Did you have backups?

I'm fond of tar over "cp -a" because it prints out the file names as it 
copies them so i have an idea how far along it is. But if not copying 
much stuff, cp is certainly easier. And i prefer tar over rsync for 
basic copying because tar is faster.

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