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tar doubts - problem with tar
The below tar command works fine for me,

Code:
tar -cvf - `find ./srcdir -type d` | (cd ./destdir ; tar -xvf - )

but this version is giving error to me:

Code:
cd ./srcdir &&
tar -cf - . |
gzip -9 |
cd ../destdir &&
gzip -d |
tar -xf -

error is: gzip: compressed data not read from a terminal. Use -f to force decompression.
For help, type: gzip -h
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
 
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