On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 19:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri Jun 8 16:38 , Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
> > Yeah, that's me, I do exactly the same until you issue the cp command where I > do: > $>cd /mnt/oldstuff && tar cvjpf /pathtosomewhere/mystuff.tbz ./ > and then extract to the new directory. I do this out of habit mostly and, > yes, > it is a useless step unless you want to store a copy somewhere for whatever > reason... > > --James The one thing I mentioned is that I actually pipe tar to tar (tar -c ... | tar -x ...) which seems even more useless, but as I said I'm used to doing some things out of habit. Then I thought about why: the '-a' flag is not available on all *nices... I believe it's a GNU extension. So I probably got used to using the tar trick on a non-GNU system and got used to it because it works whether I'm using Linux or not. But if you're on a Linux system (that has rsync installed) then rsync is probably the nicer option. It's got even more options than GNU's cp. I actually 'alias cp="rsync"' on my Gentoo systems. 'dd' is good if you want to preserve filesystem/geometry but not good if you don't. -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
