[GRASSLIST:5987] RE: moving layers from one machine to another

[Patton, Eric]

The way I do it is to use the tar command to package all necessary files
together. cd to the PERMANENT directory:

PERMANENT>	tar cvf filename.tar */filename

That will recursively go through all your grass subdirectories adding all
occurrences of file to the tar package.

Similarly, unpack the tar file in the PERMANENT directory of the destination
location with:

tar xvf filename.tar

~ Eric.

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Eric Patton
 
Technologist, Geo-Spatial Data Services
Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic)
Natural Resources Canada
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada B2Y 4A2
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-GRASSLIST at baylor.edu [mailto:owner-GRASSLIST at baylor.edu] On
Behalf Of Chris Fonnesbeck
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:56 PM
To: GRASSLIST at baylor.edu
Subject: [GRASSLIST:5986] moving layers from one machine to another

Having painstakingly imported a large shapefile into Linux (see
previous thread on v.in.ogr), I want to use this layer on my OS X
machine. However, simply moving my ~/grass directory to the other
machine seems not to work, as attempting lo load the layer results in
a bus error on the Mac (works fine on the Linux machine). What is the
best way to move layers among GRASS workstations?

Thanks,
Chris