[Chicago-talk] Merging two dir's into a third

[Steven Lembark]

-- Don Drake <don at drakeconsult.com>

> However, my example will return 0 if the disk fills, because the command
> "tar cvf - *" was successful, and the rest of the commands were piped and
> failed.
>
> Wrapping the entire line in parentheses "(tar cvf - *  | (cd ../dirc; tar
> xvf -) )" would fix that.

Or using "find . | cpio -pdv". This is a bit more
effecient also because you don't need to encode and
decode the file or move it over the pipe through
kernel buffers.


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