Re: copying a million small files between disks?

[Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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* zzapper  <david@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

  > sam reckoner wrote in news:6a42eec70710311440u52556985wda68ce326f4a0417
  > @mail.gmail.com:

  >> I'm not exaggerating. I have over one million small files that like
  >> to move between disks. The problem is that even getting a directory
  >> listing takes forever.

  > Zip up the whole file structure, then just transfer the Zip file.

I use tar and a pipe, but virtually the same thing...

  $ tar cf - olddir | (cd newdir ; tar xf -)

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