http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/05/the-tar-pipe.html →
Fascinating 10 minute tour of everything that goes on in Unix when you type (cd src && tar -cf - .) | (cd dest && tar -xpf -) in a bash terminal.
Welcome, my name is Harish Mallipeddi. I work for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This blog is mostly a dump of interesting articles that I come across on the web. Topics span across multiple areas including algorithms/datastructures, NoSQL stores, database internals, web-scale challenges, and functional languages.
Fascinating 10 minute tour of everything that goes on in Unix when you type (cd src && tar -cf - .) | (cd dest && tar -xpf -) in a bash terminal.
