Re: Pipelining tar create and tar extract the Python way...

2009-09-25 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:22:36PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:52:11PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: Hi all; In the land'o'shell, I can do something like the following: tar cvf - SrcDir | (cd /dest ; tar xvf -) Bad form replying to my own post...

Re: Pipelining tar create and tar extract the Python way...

2009-09-25 Thread Ishwor Gurung
Ray. Hi   tar cvf - SrcDir | (cd /dest ; tar xvf -) Check this out Ray if you haven't done it already http://docs.python.org/library/tarfile.html The tarfile module makes it possible to __read__ and write tar archives, including those using gzip or bz2 compression. Try breaking it up the

Pipelining tar create and tar extract the Python way...

2009-09-23 Thread Ray Van Dolson
Hi all; In the land'o'shell, I can do something like the following: tar cvf - SrcDir | (cd /dest ; tar xvf -) I'd like to learn the Python way to reproduce the above. Obviously I could use the subprocess module and just call that exact command above, but is there a way to do this with the

Re: Pipelining tar create and tar extract the Python way...

2009-09-23 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:52:11PM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: Hi all; In the land'o'shell, I can do something like the following: tar cvf - SrcDir | (cd /dest ; tar xvf -) Bad form replying to my own post... while I'd still like to know if this is possible to do with the tarfile