moving a complete directory in ubuntu lts 8.04

[ramy1978]

hi all

i just been looking into linux for a few weeks now reading the book: begining Ubuntu LTS from Novice to professionals for 8.04
folowing the book step by step but geting stuck on teh following command


tar -cC /var . | tar -vxC /newvar

i use sudo before teh tar command but its not doing anything and gives that cowardly refusing eror mesage even though i put the dot at the end

any iseas would be appreicated

regards

[reed9]

Fair warning, I'm no expert with tar, but I can't puzzle out exactly what your aim is here.

What are you trying to accomplish, and what is the exact error message you're getting?

If I'm parsing this correctly, you're looking to change to the /var directory, create an archive, change to /newvar, and extract that archive?

I think that should look more like this, but I haven't tried it.

tar -C /var tar -cf - . ) | tar -xvf - -C /newvar

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[ramy1978]

hi

thanks for youre reply
according to the book its making a archive of everything in teh var directory and copying it to the newvar directory as if its a copy of that directory


now the comand is corerct and fater trying it on 2 diferent machines it turns out that sudo wont work for that command as logged in as root and was able to use

tar -cC /var . | tar -vxC /newvar


thanks