Worked example of a subshell

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Last Updated: 2024-03-28

The following piece of code has an effect similar to rsync for copying folders with metadata like permissions. But what's exactly is going on with the combination of brackets and parentheses?

(cd src && tar -c .) | (cd dst && tar -xp)

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You might want to supress an environmental variable temporarily with a subshell bash (unset http_proxy; wget ...)

Aside on the tar command

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