sure - but old habits die hard (and Ken's man page for tar shows the form I
use.  I programmed my fingers to his example in 1978 I suspect).

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 12:14 AM Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 8:18 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>
>> Where and when did mvdir(1) appear?  It's not in Research or BSD.
>>
>> FWIW: in the old days, I just used  tar cf - . | (cd some_place_else;
>> tar xvpf - )  preserving permissions.  The hardlink scheme of cpio was
>> the one thing it could do that the original tar did not.
>>
>
> I'm partial to:
> (cd /source/dir && tar cf - .) | (cd /dest/dir && tar xfp -)
>
> The &&'s make it so a typo is less likely to do something odd or even
> damaging.
>
>