[UFO Chicago] very newbie 'nix question

[Nick Moffitt]

begin  Elliot Shank  quotation:
> On a related note is one of my beefs with using "cp -R" on directories
> when some of the target directories already exist.  cp just barfs in
> such a case and gives up.  My usual workaround in such a case is to
> 
>     cd sourcedir
>     tar cf - . | ( cd destinationdir && tar xvf - )

	rsync -a sourcedir destionationdir

	Want to obliterate anything already in destinationdir?  just
add a --delete switch.

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