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Copy Entire Directory Structure Using Tar

May 03, 2023 — Gregg Szumowski

Sometimes you need to copy an entire directory structure to another location on the command line. Here is a quick way to do it using the tar command:

tar cf - * | ( cd /target; tar xfp -)

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