CentOS - Jun 2007 - tar question

Hi

Using tar i normally create an archive etc and then unpack that archive, 
job done.

But i am copying from one filesystem to another on the same host, they 
are 2 seperate nfs filesystems, and i wonder is it possible to use tar 
to do this as opposed to say rsync etc.

tar -cvf /some/input/dir to/here etc ?

thanks

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 02:11:23PM +0100, Tom Brown enlightened
us:
> Using tar i normally create an archive etc and then unpack that archive, 
> job done.
> 
> But i am copying from one filesystem to another on the same host, they 
> are 2 seperate nfs filesystems, and i wonder is it possible to use tar 
> to do this as opposed to say rsync etc.
> 
> tar -cvf /some/input/dir to/here etc ?
> 
I believe it goes something like:

cd /some/input/dir 
tar cvf - . | (cd /to/here; tar xvf -)

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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