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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best way to copy directory trees
Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:11:10 +0100
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Daniel Ts'o (dantso@cris.com) wrote:
: yes, I usually use cpio like above:
: find dir0 -print | cpio -pldumv dir1
: It maintains links, times, owners, etc. Smarter CPIO's can
: maintain
: device nodes, named pipes, etc. An advantage over the double tar
: method is
: that the data doesn't have to travel over a pipe, only filenames
: are travel
: over the pipe in the example above.
: However if it is a cross-machine copy, then I use tar,
: since you have
: to move the data across the two machines in some way. Much faster
: than NFS:
: tar cf - . | rsh desthost "cd newdir; tar xf -"
What about
pax -rw -p e . newdir
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....