Copying a directory hierarchy

Doug Poland doug at polands.org
Tue Dec 21 18:44:26 PST 2004


On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:02:32PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote:
> How does on copy a complete directory hierarchy, including any hidden
> files?
> 
My personal favorite, from gtar (formerly tar) man page:

     To move file hierarchies, use a command line like this:

     tar -cf - -C srcdir . | tar xpf - -C destdir

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Regards,
Doug


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