Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:02:31 -0700 From: "'Gary Kline'" <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how do i scp .dotfiles?? Message-ID: <20100828070231.GA98502@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20100827211306.68e261be.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20100827170737.GA96063@thought.org> <26118_1282929673_4C77F409_26118_366_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B434999FDCA57D@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> <20100827211306.68e261be.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com> wrote: > > Rename them, copy, then rename them back? > > Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together, > transfer the archive, untar it; rename afterwards if needed. :-) > If i'm going to rename, say, ~/.Plans to ~/Plans and ~/.HowtoI18 to ~/HowtoI18, I may just scp -rp every ~/[.] file. the idea of using find to collect a tarball may work. > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org
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