> On 23 Aug 2016, at 10:06, Gerhard Schmidt <[email protected]> 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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