On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 01:40:51PM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > Does anyone know the best way to copy a huge directory tree (~1Gig) > to another disk (mounted at some point)? I need to preserve the > ownerships and permissions, preservation of times are optional.
You can try : (cd dir1 && tar cv *) | (cd dir2 && tar xf -) which preserves everything (dunno about times however). olive -- Olivier Tharan, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The determined programmer can write a FORTRAN program in any language. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .