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copying directories



Ron Peterson wrote:
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| So far, we have cp, tar, and rsync.  But wait!  There's more!
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| scp dir1 dir2 -r
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| maybe with a -p, for good measure
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| Like rsync, also works across machines.


Also, unlike cp, this does copy dir1's contents into  dir2,
and  doesn't  create  dir2/dir1.   So  scp's  semantics for
directories are different than cp's.

We might also note that scp encrypts the data when it sends
across the net.  Does rsync encrypt, too?





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