Problems with piped tar

[Daniel Braniss]

> On 23 Aug 2016, at 10:18, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 23 Aug 2016, at 10:06, Gerhard Schmidt <estartu at ze.tum.de <mailto:estartu at ze.tum.de>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> i'm quite often use tar to copy files using
>> 
>> tar cf - /some/dir | (cd /dest/dir; tar xvvf - )
> the ‘new’ way:
> 	tar cf - /some/dir | tar xvvd - -C /dest/dir
s/xvvd/xvvf/

> which of course does not explain way your version hangs, but this one is cleaner, and btw, don’t
> include /.
> 
>> 
>> the files are copied without a problem but the reading tar never
>> terminates and so the whole command never terminates.
>> 
>> This is new since FreeBSD 10.
>> 
>> Regards
>>  Estartu
>> 
>> 
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