Hi Andy, out of curiosity seeing this thread - do xrd tools support reading from stdin? I have just been thinking, that something like tar -cJfv - dirwmanysmallfiles/ | xrdcp - root://foo.site:1094/path/arch.tar.xz could be useful? Cheers, Thomas On 2017-12-14 14:21, Andrew Hanushevsky wrote: > Hi Stephan, > > It looks like you just want to do a local copy (i.e. from one disk to > another). If so, xrdcp is not appropriate for this. Your best bet is > either cp (which you would invoke one ay a time but should be fast). > > Andy > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Stephan Zimmer wrote: > ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-L&A=1