On Wednesday 19 March 2003 08:11 pm, Michael Noble wrote: > To copy directories and files keeping ownership and permissions, etc the > same, use the following: > > tar cf - <dir> | (cd <path to new location>;tar xf -) > > Do this as root. > I don't understand why you would want to go through the additional overhead of creating a tar file when "cp -a" will do the same thing.
-- Greg
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