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Subject: Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??
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On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> guys,
> 
> this is the start of my master switchover.  how to i copy/scp,say,
> ~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple?  along with many hundreds of other
> dot files? scp doesn't do it.
> 
> tx,
> 

scp user@foo:\.dotfile .dotfile

Regards,

-- 
Glen Barber