30 Dec
2021
30 Dec
'21
11:14 a.m.
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 8:18 AM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Where and when did mvdir(1) appear? It's not in
Research or BSD.
FWIW: in the old days, I just used tar cf - . | (cd some_place_else; tar
xvpf - ) preserving permissions. The hardlink scheme of cpio was the
one thing it could do that the original tar did not.
I'm partial to:
(cd /source/dir && tar cf - .) | (cd /dest/dir && tar xfp -)
The &&'s make it so a typo is less likely to do something odd or even
damaging.