Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Normally when I want to populate a new dir structure (which is empty to > begin with) I do > > instead of issuing the command > cp -a /some/area/mp3 /other/area/mp3-store > > use > > tar lcf - . | (cd /other/area/mp3-store; tar -xpvf - ) > tar lcf - /path/to/file | (cd /other/area/mp3-store; tar -xpvf - ) > > tar -czf - /directory/to/copy | ssh systemB tar -xzvf - -C /tmp >
Thanks, that clarifies it for me. I wasn't aware that cp and rsync were inferior to tar in this respect but I suppose a simple benchmark would prove it. Zac -- [email protected] mailing list
