[lug] tarring and untarring

[Sean Reifschneider]

>Ken Nagorski wrote:
> 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...

I usually just do a "cp -a /path/to/src /path/to/dest" sort of thing.  The
trick you're thinking about could be something like:

   cd /path/to/src
   tar c . | ( cd /path/to/dest; tar x )

or:

   tar c . | tar x --directory=/path/to/dest

Sean
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