Re: [leafnode-list] the owner of the files in /var/spool/news

[Mike Castle <dalgoda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 12:27:46PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Alternatively, try find and cpio (info cpio shows a lot of examples if
> you have GNU info and GNU cpio and GNU find installed) or tar:
> 
> ( cd /source/dir && tar -cplf - .) | ( cd /target/dir && tar -xpvf . )

cd /source/dir ; find . -depth -print | cpio -pdm /target/dir


Is MUCH faster than the equivalent in tar, btw.  (Use -pdmv if you want
visual output, personally I always find it annoying.)

mrc
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