Heads up: gtar gone from base system

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Poland" <doug at polands.org>
To: "Doug Barton" <DougB at freebsd.org>
Cc: <current at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system


> On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 06:16:24PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Doug Poland wrote:
>>
>> >There are some examples in the gtar man page that would be nice to have
>> >in bsdtar.
>>
>> Given that "some examples" have already been implemented, I think we're
>> covered here. :)  If you want something more specific, you'll have to
>> provide a little more information.
>>
> OK, the example I cannot live without...
>
>
>     To move file hierarchies, use a command line like this:
>
>     tar -cf - -C srcdir . | tar xpf - -C destdir

Why not?
Isn't that just a slight convenience for this?:
cd srcdir ; tar cf - . |( cd destdir ; tar xpf - )

It looks equivalent saying you cannot live without -j or -z ?
now if "cd" ever decides to eat even one character from stdin that'd be 
different :)

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