John Campbell writes:
> I would probably write off tar and, instead, do:
>
> cd (somewhere)
> find . -xdev -type d -print | cpio -ocv >tree.cpio
And combining this with the NUL-separation to ensure whitespace in
filenames is handled correctly, this would become
find . -xdev -type d -print0 | cpio -0ocv >tree.cpio
And if you use "-H ustar" instead of the -c option (which corresponds
to "-H newc") then cpio will write out a tar archive which tar can
extract for you:
find . -xdev -type d -print0 | cpio -0ov -H ustar > tree.tar
--Malcolm
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