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high five It truly is the best, no? My pipelines look a bit different than yours (they usually have `lzop`/`zstd`, `cd`, and occasionally `pv`), but tar truly

by loxias 5y ago

high five It truly is the best, no? My pipelines look a bit different than yours (they usually have `lzop`/`zstd`, `cd`, and occasionally `pv`), but tar truly is the best file copy utility. I rarely use `cp -a` even when copying locally. `tar` is so much faster.

spockz 5y ago
Then why isn’t cp-a and alias for tar?
- loxias 5y ago
  Because that's not how you use it. :) But you raise a decent point. I'll write a short script you could alias to cp in most cases, put it somewhere, and edit this comment in a day with a link.