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The amazingly awesome tar pipe command for copying trees of files around
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# https://blog.extracheese.org/2010/05/the-tar-pipe.html
# on Mac the --exclude-vcs is not available - can add --exclude .git
(cd /Users/ssmith6/depot/js-intro-workshop && tar cf - .)|(cd /Users/ssmith6/depot/Android101 && tar xvfp -)
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