10 Jun
2007
10 Jun
'07
11:14 p.m.
--On Thursday, June 07, 2007 9:18 AM -0400 Matt Hyclak hyclak@math.ohiou.edu wrote:
I believe it goes something like:
cd /some/input/dir tar cvf - . | (cd /to/here; tar xvf -)
If sparse files (with unallocated "holes" in them) are involved, dump might be a better choice. I don't think tar can preserve holes. It might, however, replace long runs of zeroes with holes, which might be sufficient.