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- From: <ihnp4!gorgo!bsteve> (Steve Blasingame)
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- dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Writes:
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- >The obvious choice seems to be the tar archive format (more widely used and
- >available) with cpio's user interface.
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- The significant issue regarding cpio that has not been addressed is the
- function of copying directory trees to directory trees. There is not another
- standard tool that performs this important function.
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- [ I use tar to do this all the time. The 4.3BSD man page includes:
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- Tar can also be used to move
- hierarchies with the command
- cd fromdir; tar cf - . | (cd todir; tar xf -)
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- -mod ]
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- Steve Blasingame (Oklahoma City)
- ihnp4!gorgo!bsteve
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- Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 46
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