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Date:      Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:25:01 -0700
From:      Jason Helfman <jgh@experts-exchange.com>
To:        Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??
Message-ID:  <20100827102501.79222db6@eggman>
In-Reply-To: <4C77F3AC.8020908@gmail.com>
References:  <20100827170737.GA96063@thought.org> <4C77F3AC.8020908@gmail.com>

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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.


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