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Date:      Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:25:55 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??
Message-ID:  <AANLkTikYc-25doQosrL2g1k3wsTiVjxjwtCPOO6oWtLy@mail.gmail.com>
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On 28 August 2010 08:02, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote:
> 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> wr=
ote:
>> > 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. =A0the idea of using
> find to collect a tarball may work.
>

How about:

$ tar cjf -  *dotfile* | ssh machine 'tar xvjf -'

Much less fiddly!

Chris



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