Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:02:43 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> Cc: Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com>, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how do i scp .dotfiles?? Message-ID: <AANLkTinhzUhrZtUXXt9D4B85%2BYQhziA%2BcmHB7eqapkr3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikD4aZdvDur8A-6edZZD3%2B6YXo8Mgd2ga8x0xOY@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100827170737.GA96063@thought.org> <26118_1282929673_4C77F409_26118_366_1_D9B37353831173459FDAA836D3B434999FDCA57D@WADPMBXV0.waddell.com> <20100827211306.68e261be.freebsd@edvax.de> <AANLkTikD4aZdvDur8A-6edZZD3%2B6YXo8Mgd2ga8x0xOY@mail.gmail.com>
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On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> 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. :-) > > or > > sudo tar cf - /somepath | ssh x@y " sudo tar xvf - -C somepath " > > I agree with other posts though rsync is the easiest Why sudo with tar? Chris
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