Copying Files Using tar
One choice for copying files into another location is to use the tar command; you just create a tar file that is piped to tar to be uncompressed in the new location. To accomplish this, first change to the source directory. Then the entire command resembles this:
matthew@seymour:~$ tar -cvf files | (cd target_directory ; tar -xpf)
In this command, files are the filenames you want to include; use * to include the entire current directory.
Here is how this command works: You have already changed to the source directory and executed tar with the cvf arguments that tell tar to
• c—Create an archive.
• v—Verbose; lists the files processed so you can see that it is working.
• f—The filename of the archive will be what follows. ...
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