tar and untar

AbrahamJose · 08-06-2014, 12:41 AM

Hi all friends,
I want to move all contents of a file system to a new location, due to space limitations.
I prefer a tar and untar methode, as a most safe way.
Is it possible to do it without an intermediate file
I mean tar -cv is to be directly extracted to new location.
With thanks in advance,
Abraham Jose

pan64 · 08-06-2014, 01:13 AM

yes, you need to use pipe, something like this:
tar -C <source dir> -cf - . | tar -C <target dir> -xf -

AbrahamJose · 08-07-2014, 05:16 AM

Thanks a lot.
I tested and found OK.
This is what I really wanted.

TenTenths · 08-07-2014, 05:35 AM

Is there any reason you can't use rsync?