Editing Tar (computing) (section)

===Tarpipe===
A tarpipe is the method of writing an archive to [[Standard streams#Standard output (stdout)|standard output]] and piping it to another tar process on its [[Standard streams#Standard input (stdin)|standard input]], working in another directory, where it is unpacked.  This process copies an entire source directory tree including all special files, for example:
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$ tar cf - srcdir | tar x -C destdir
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