[lug] tarring and untarring

[Ed Hill]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 09:42, Ken Nagorski wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Does anyone remember how to tar something to a new location. This trick is
> most generally used when someone wants to move a large number of files to a
> new location, like for instance, adding a larger drive to become the /var
> partition...
> 
> Ugh, there is some trick where you just run tar and pipe the output right
> to another tar and it tell it where to uncompress it.


Off the top of my head, its:

  tar -cvf - /path/to/tar | ( cd /new/path ; tar -xvf - ) 


hth,
Ed

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