Laurent Duperval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> I typically use:
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> tar -cf - . | (cd /new/directory ; tar xvf -)
>
> I used to do it because it was faster than using cp. Don't know if that's
> still true.
Whether or not that is true I don't know, but I *do* know that cp has a
tendency to FOLLOW softlinks (and COPY, not reproduce, hard links), whereas
tar does not, so tar (and cpio, if you prefer it to tar) is better there.
rc
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