From: "Nigel Roles" <nigel@9fs.org>
To: "9fans@cse.psu.edu" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:14:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fdd4f468be52d3ca43b4c5ed3371463@9fs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1020625115620.22557A-100000@teach.ic.ucsc.edu>
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:41:06 GMT, Andrew Stitt wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Fco.J.Ballesteros wrote:
>
>> Again, from rsc tiny tools :-)
>>
>> ; cat /bin/dircp
>> #!/bin/rc
>>
>> switch($#*){
>> case 2
>> @{cd $1 && tar c .}|@{cd $2 && tar x}
>> case *
>> echo usage: dircp from to >[1=2]
>> }
>>
>>
>why must i needlessly shove all the files into a tar, then unpack them
>again? thats incredibly inefficient! that uses roughly twice the space
>that should be required, it has to copy the files twice, and it has the
>overhead of having to needless run the data through tar. Is there a better
>solution to this?
> Andrew
This does not use any more space. The tar commands are piped together.
I doubt a specific cp -r type command would be particularly more efficient.
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[not found] <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>
2002-06-25 17:06 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-25 18:01 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-06-26 8:41 ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-26 9:14 ` Nigel Roles [this message]
2002-06-26 17:41 ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-26 16:08 ` Ish Rattan
2003-07-15 0:37 [9fans] Dumb question Dan Cross
2003-07-15 3:23 ` boyd, rounin
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2002-07-05 9:43 [9fans] dumb question Geoff Collyer
2002-07-01 11:03 rog
2002-07-02 8:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
[not found] <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2002-06-28 16:49 ` rob pike, esq.
2002-06-29 2:23 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-06-28 16:39 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-28 16:31 rog
2002-06-28 16:14 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-28 14:10 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-28 15:42 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-28 14:08 rog
2002-06-28 7:52 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27 22:59 Geoff Collyer
2002-06-28 4:32 ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-27 18:38 forsyth
2002-06-28 8:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-27 17:07 rog
2002-06-27 17:07 forsyth
2002-06-27 16:33 ` Sam
2002-06-27 14:43 Richard Miller
2002-06-27 14:33 forsyth
2002-06-27 13:20 rob pike, esq.
2002-07-05 9:07 ` Maarit Maliniemi
2002-06-27 13:19 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-27 13:21 ` david presotto
2002-06-27 15:40 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-27 12:27 rog
2002-06-27 12:12 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27 12:06 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27 11:13 ` Sam
2002-06-27 11:15 ` Sam
2002-06-27 10:29 nigel
2002-06-27 9:44 Stephen Parker
2002-06-27 9:43 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27 9:36 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-06-27 1:22 okamoto
2002-06-27 1:05 okamoto
2002-06-26 23:08 forsyth
[not found] ` <171e27d5f2cfd12a9303117e58818e5b@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2002-06-26 18:27 ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-26 17:39 ` Sam
2002-06-27 9:17 ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-27 9:33 ` Ish Rattan
2002-06-27 9:59 ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-27 10:05 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-06-27 10:21 ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-27 15:40 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-27 16:57 ` Lucio De Re
2002-06-28 8:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-28 9:31 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-06-28 14:30 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-28 15:06 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-07-01 9:46 ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-06-27 15:36 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-27 15:12 ` Sam
2002-06-28 8:44 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-26 22:07 ` Micah Stetson
2002-06-26 22:59 ` Chris Hollis-Locke
2002-06-27 0:03 ` Micah Stetson
2002-06-27 0:44 ` Micah Stetson
2002-06-27 9:17 ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-06-27 9:48 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-06-27 10:07 ` John Murdie
2002-06-27 15:40 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-26 19:04 rog
2002-06-26 19:00 Warrier, Sadanand (Sadanand)
2002-06-27 0:13 ` Steve Arons
2002-06-26 18:41 forsyth
2002-06-26 18:40 David Gordon Hogan
2002-06-26 17:53 rog
2002-06-26 17:45 rob pike, esq.
2002-06-27 9:16 ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-27 9:17 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-06-26 19:53 ` arisawa
2002-06-27 11:43 ` Ralph Corderoy
2002-06-27 11:04 ` Sam
2002-06-26 8:55 Stephen Parker
2002-06-26 17:18 ` Andrew Stitt
2002-06-25 16:48 Andrew Stitt
2002-06-26 8:45 ` arisawa
2002-06-26 17:36 ` Andrew Stitt
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