Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!ucdavis.ucdavis.edu!windley From: windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley/20000000) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: tar problem ? Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 90 00:34:26 GMT References: <1990Feb24.010641.1159@tse.uucp> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Organization: UCD Robotics Research Lab Lines: 25 In-reply-to: tim@tse.uucp's message of 24 Feb 90 01:06:41 GMT In article <1990Feb24.010641.1159@tse.uucp> tim@tse.uucp (Tim Brecht) writes: Can anyone tell me why the following doesn't work ? tar -c -f - dir1 dir2 dir3 | (cd /newdir; tar -x -f -) I'm afraid that I don't know why it doesn't work for you, because I do this on my RT running 2.2.1 all the time. Maybe it helps to know that it SHOULD work. Try "cp -r" --phil-- -- Phil Windley | windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu Division of Computer Science | ucbvax!ucdavis!cheetah!windley University of California, Davis | Davis, CA 95616 | (916) 752-6452 (or 3168)