On 1 November 2010 22:23, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2010-11-01 22:59, Mitesh Patel wrote: >> By the way, what is the best way to copy an entire [scratch-built] Sage >> distribution on Solaris? For example, >> >> cp -a sage-original-distribution sage-copy-to-upgrade > Probably using a tarball? Tar the original directory and then untar it > where you want it.
There's no need to create a tar file though - just copy stdout of one tar process into stdin of the other. tar cf - sage-4.6 | (cd tmp/; tar xfp -) Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
