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From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:00:43 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp
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> ...c-stoff/t-stoff powered rocket...

<oblique UK reference>
I watched OU programs as a child too :-)
</oblique UK reference>

I suggest you consider why you are moving directories about, I have just got
out of the habit.

If I get a tar or a zip which contains dome data I need I just mount it with
fs/tarfs or fs/zipfs and look inside. If I want just a few files I cp them to
$home, if I want most of it then I extract the image to the destination where
it is needed.

Basicially I put a bit more thought up-front as to where I want to put stuff
and then put it there.

If you want dircp as a backup mechnism then can I suggest either fossil and venti,
or, mk9660(8).

mk9660 creates a dump-like heirarchy in a single ISO image, mergeing multiple dumps
into the single ISO, stripping dumplicate files as it goes; kudos to wkj I believe.

-Steve