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From: hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
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Subject: Re: Your favourite UNIX-pipe (summary)
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Date: 3 Aug 90 01:43:03 GMT
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reddy@lion.austin.ibm.com (/150000;Austin) writes:

}How about including useful short pipes (which could make our lives (novices)
}a little easier (and productive).

    Here's a good one (stolen from an Ultix man page):

         (cd fromdir; tar cf - .) | (cd todir; tar xpf -)

    And it even has a smilie at the end -)

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