Tom Brown wrote: > >> I believe it goes something like: >> >> cd /some/input/dir tar cvf - . | (cd /to/here; tar xvf -) > > that is spot on thanks! does it buffer anything in memory do you know or > any other temp space? Just wonder as there are a few gigs of data. My personal preference is to do something like: cd /some/input/dir find . -print | cpio -pvm /to/here or cd /some/input/dir rsync -av . /to/here (need to check the cpio options there -- I don't use that form very often). James _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos