On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Bill Warner wrote:
> This doesn't seem to work for me. I use cp -a, and dropped the v from
> the tar to suppress output. here is the outputs of the two different
> commands:
>
> wwarner:/usr# cd
> wwarner:~# cd /usr
> wwarner:/usr# du -sh lib
> 673M lib
> wwarner:/usr# time cp -a lib /tmp
>
> real 2m59.519s
> user 0m0.129s
> sys 0m4.279s
> wwarner:/usr# rm -rf /tmp/lib
> wwarner:/usr# time tar -cf - lib | tar -C /tmp -xf -
>
> real 3m2.839s
> user 0m0.362s
> sys 0m5.703s
You say it didn't work for you. But you didn't show us that it didn't
work. It appears like it did work.
Jeremy C. Reed
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