copy-directory /media/cdrom /mnt/backup/ 104MB 0:00:06 [7.43MB/s] [============> ] 9% ETA 0:00:58
Using tape archive create a tar file in Stdout (-) and pipe that into a compound command to extract the tar file from Stdin at the destination. This similar to "Copy via tar pipe ...", but copies across file systems boundaries. I prefer to use cp -pr for copying within the same file system. Show Sample Output
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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cd /src; find . | cpio -dump /dst
A nice variant is the -l option: It doesn't really copy the files, but creates a tree of hardlinks. Only works within the same file system, of course:cd /src; find . | cpio -dumpl /dst
If some files contain white space characters, then you should use the -print0 option with find, and the -0 (zero) option with cpio. On BSD systems, the cpdup command is most convenient and very efficient:cpdup /src /dst
By the way, the cp command (with -r or -R) should be avoided. It's not portable, the exact semantics are not well-defined. Notably it doesn't copy all kinds of files correctly, on some platforms it doesn't handle hardlinks, FIFOs or other special files correctly.