Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:54:52 -0700 From: Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how do i scp .dotfiles?? Message-ID: <20100827175452.GD53891@eggman.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <20100827175141.GB96341@thought.org> References: <20100827170737.GA96063@thought.org> <4C77F3AC.8020908@gmail.com> <20100827102501.79222db6@eggman> <20100827175141.GB96341@thought.org>
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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:41AM -0700, Gary Kline thus spake: >On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400 >> Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > 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, >> > >> >> Use rsync over ssh. >> >> > > > i've already done 98 or so straight scp copies. the thing is how > to use rsync over to an empty ethic? [[ empty == "there are no \ > dot files not .directories"] i want EVERYTHING from this desktop, > tao, temp on ethic. > > thanks > > You can just use rsync in cooperation with find command. I've used it before, but found this as an example with a web search. rsync -avR remote:'`find /home -name "*.[ch]"`' /tmp/ Just reverse the order. -jgh
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