[tex-live] Re: Re: [tug-board] Any news of DVDs ?

[Vladimir Volovich]

"KB" == Karl Berry writes:

 cmd> syscopy texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/lm/*
 KB> Oh, I see.  Yes, being smart enough to do that would help the
 KB> unix installer a lot too.

may it be that using something like

( cd /source/dir/; tar c --files-from filelist -f - ) | ( cd /destination/dir/; tar xf - )

will be a lot more efficient than a series of
cp /source/dir/file/path /destination/dir/file/path

Best,
v.