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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] bug or feature? |
| Date: | Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:54:06 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 |
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
To my mind it would be totally unexpected by most users.
I'm not sure I agree. It's reasonably common to see commands like this: tar cf - . | (cd /some/other/place && tar xf -)where the intent is to copy everything about the current directory - including its ownership and permissions and subdirectory structure - to some other place.
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