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25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
23:38
* Philipp Thomas (pthomas@suse.de) [020425 16:34]:
Any special reason to do that in subshells? I'd do it as
tar -C /cdrom -cf - . | tar -C /hda11/suse8.0 -xvfp -
It's a *tad* bit shorter ;-))))
No no, I just copied and pasted from a script I use for this sort of thing where it's not always guaranteed that the destination will exist. You should have seen it before I removed the Useless Use of Cat's :) -- -ckm