SUN Transcript

[David J. Camp]

In article <1319 at brazos.Rice.edu> edm at nwnexus.wa.com (Ed Morin) writes:
:X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 112, message 2 of 14
:
:One thing that bothered me about Sun's Transcript is that when the fonts
:are originally tar-ed off the distribution tape, there exist a number of
:links between files which same a considerable amount of space.  During the
:course of installation the entire set of font directories are cp -r over
:to their final destination.  The problem is that all of the link in-
:formation is lost and the disk bloats out.
:
:My solution was to remove the tree after the installation and do a tar
:copy of the distribution tree to preserve the links and save my disk
:space.  It was quite time consuming though and their installation should
:have been much more intelligent about it all...

When I move things around and need to maintain symbolic links, I do not
use cp -r at all.  I use tar, and pipe the output to another tar job
that immediately extracts it at its destination.  e.g.

(cd /source/.. ; tar cd - source ) | ( cd /dest/.. ; tar xvf - )

Be careful you do not have 'cd' aliased though.  -David-

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