Thursday, August 26, 2004

Unix tar tips...

use tar to copy a directory with all links etc intact
tar cvf - . |(cd /opt/local/www/owl ; tar xvf - )

use tar to copy a directory from one host to another using remsh
cd /local/dir
tar cvf - ./* | remsh remotehost '(cd /remote/dir ; tar xvf -)'

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