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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 396633" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p><grumpy old man></p><p></p><p>In MY day if you wanted to copy a folder recursively with permissions intact, we su'ed to root and issued</p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">tar cf - . | (cd /Volumes/Other\ Drive; tar xpfB -)</span></p><p></p><p>And we didn't wanna see all the files it was copying because we didn't CARE about that dag nabbit! We LEFT out the -v option because only a ninny would have all that file dribble scrolling up the screen! We trusted the shell to execute our command, uphill both ways in the snoooow!</p><p></p><p>And we used Korn Shell or just Bourne, fiddle-dee-dee! csh was for elitist JERKS who wanted to write buggy code because it kept their jobs secure! bash was for PUNKS who were too laaazy to remember the previous command they issued. If you were worth the salt you were made of you wrote scripts that were portable across architectures, but if it was too slooow, you wrote an obscure 3 line C program that was compiled with a Makefile five pages of blue-bar long, linking it with every possible library and include path and then stripped the resulting executable because debugging was for ninnys! </p><p></p><p>We didn't use that newfangled vi or EMACS either! We used ed on a teletype terminal that didn't have a backspace or delete key! If you were a WANNA-BE you used ex and only THOUGHT you were hard core!</p><p></p><p>And we didn't have LIINNUXX on that worthless INTEL hardware! We had 25 differnent companies each with their own version of SysV self-compiled on their own proprietary CPUs and they all HATED each other!</p><p></p><p>And we LIKED it!</p><p></p><p>Faddle-dee-doooo!</p><p></p><p></grumpy old man></p><p></p><p>Today we just drag the folder to the other window.</p><p></p><p>But all that stuff still works on a Mac today. Isn't that great?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 396633, member: 9385"] <grumpy old man> In MY day if you wanted to copy a folder recursively with permissions intact, we su'ed to root and issued [FONT="Courier New"]tar cf - . | (cd /Volumes/Other\ Drive; tar xpfB -)[/FONT] And we didn't wanna see all the files it was copying because we didn't CARE about that dag nabbit! We LEFT out the -v option because only a ninny would have all that file dribble scrolling up the screen! We trusted the shell to execute our command, uphill both ways in the snoooow! And we used Korn Shell or just Bourne, fiddle-dee-dee! csh was for elitist JERKS who wanted to write buggy code because it kept their jobs secure! bash was for PUNKS who were too laaazy to remember the previous command they issued. If you were worth the salt you were made of you wrote scripts that were portable across architectures, but if it was too slooow, you wrote an obscure 3 line C program that was compiled with a Makefile five pages of blue-bar long, linking it with every possible library and include path and then stripped the resulting executable because debugging was for ninnys! We didn't use that newfangled vi or EMACS either! We used ed on a teletype terminal that didn't have a backspace or delete key! If you were a WANNA-BE you used ex and only THOUGHT you were hard core! And we didn't have LIINNUXX on that worthless INTEL hardware! We had 25 differnent companies each with their own version of SysV self-compiled on their own proprietary CPUs and they all HATED each other! And we LIKED it! Faddle-dee-doooo! </grumpy old man> Today we just drag the folder to the other window. But all that stuff still works on a Mac today. Isn't that great? [/QUOTE]
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