30 Dec
2021
30 Dec
'21
10:22 p.m.
sure - but old habits die hard (and Ken's man page for tar shows the form I
use. I programmed my fingers to his example in 1978 I suspect).
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 12:14 AM Dan Stromberg <drsalists(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.