[Sussex] Mail for Nik

[steve at dobson.org]

Richie

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:25:52PM +0100, Richie Jarvis wrote:
> Been trying to remember that nice tar statement you advocated at the 
> last moot to copy dirs over - can you send it to me please?

He didn't get it right on the slide, IIRC, but here is my version that
works:

  (cd <src-dir> && tar cf - .) | (cd <dst-dir> && tar xcf -)
 
Steve
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