[ale] Batch processing text files

[Joe Bayes]

JK writes:

>Just curious: is there a particular reason you used a tar
>pipeline instead of "cp -a here there"?

Because that's what I've been doing for the past 15 years, and I trust
it? ;)

There was probably a reason at one point -- maybe I was on a system
with non-GNU cp that didn't support -a. I don't really remember, it's
just the way that I've always done it. 

Joe

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