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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Best way to copy directory trees Date: 28 Aug 1996 08:05:18 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <500uju$khm@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <ts-0108961559090001@mac.infodirekt.de> <gergDvH52n.6K9@netcom.com> <4vqhm8$ol7@herald.concentric.net> <MICHAELV.96Aug26221506@mindbender.serv.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E michaelv@MindBender.serv.net (Michael L. VanLoon) wrote: > yes, I usually use cpio like above: > find dir0 -print | cpio -pldumv dir1 > > The most common sysadmin method, AFAIK, is the dual-tar: > > tar cpf - . | ( cd /somedir/ ; tar xpf - ) Keep in mind that both tools have serious shortcomings that can become very important on 4.4BSD systems. . tar cannot handle long path names (old tar 100 characters, newer tar's 255 characters, the system allows for at least 1024 characters) . tar cannot handle 32-bit dev nodes . cpio can only handle 32-bit dev nodes when using -H newc or -H crc archive formats (which are not understood by old cpio's); this is not a problem with cpio -p, but only for exchanging archives between machines. -- 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. ;-)