[Chicago-talk] Merging two dir's into a third
Steven Lembark
lembark at wrkhors.com
Wed Feb 18 13:33:19 CST 2004
-- Don Drake <don at drakeconsult.com>
>
> This will work:
>
># cd dira
># tar cvf - * | (cd ../dirc; tar xvf -)
># cd ../dirb
># tar cvf - * | (cd ../dirc; tar xvf -)
Problem with this is that tar exits zero on most
errors, which makes it hard to tell if the job
completed. For example, this will exit zero on
a filesystem-full error (at least with the tar's
I've used on linux, solaris, hp-ux, osf/1, and
aix).
cpio exits non-zero if it cannot complete a file:
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