> On 23 Aug 2016, at 10:06, Gerhard Schmidt <estartu at ze.tum.de>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> i'm quite often use tar to copy files using
>
> tar cf - /some/dir | (cd /dest/dir; tar xvvf - )
the ?new? way:
tar cf - /some/dir | tar xvvd - -C /dest/dir
which of course does not explain way your version hangs, but this one is
cleaner, and btw, don?t
include /.
>
> the files are copied without a problem but the reading tar never
> terminates and so the whole command never terminates.
>
> This is new since FreeBSD 10.
>
> Regards
> Estartu
>
>
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