On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 at 9:18am, Matt Hyclak wrote > 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 -) Alternately cd /some/input/dir tar cO . | tar xC /to/here -f - -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University