[rescue] Doh!
Kenneth Dunn
luser at xtra.co.nz
Wed Oct 9 03:41:42 CDT 2002
On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > Like a button clicking Red Hat using tool I just forgot. Install
> > is going real good now.
>
> You really want to use a tar pipeline for stuff like that
> anyway...much safer than cp.
>
> # cd <src>
> # tar -cf - . | (cd /<dest>; tar -xvBpf -)
I ended up doing that. cp-ing non-regular files can be bad, had
forgotten about past experiences doing that.
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