[olug] help with copyig using tar

[Sam Tetherow]

Well, i would start by removing the z option on both sides, why burn the 
CPU when you are compressing it only to turn around and uncompress on 
the other end of the pipe ;)

Ryan Stille wrote:
> I'm trying to copy a directory structure to another location using tar.  I thought this would work:
> 
> tar -czf - source_dir_name |tar -xzf - -C /tmp/dest_dir_name/
> 
> It kind of works, the source_dir_name directory now exists under /tmp/dest_dir_name/, but I also get this output on my terminal: 
> gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
> tar: Child returned status 2
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> So I don't know if everything worked ok.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Ryan
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