RE: How to copy recursively ?

[Uncle Meat <kcsmart worldinter net>]

On 12-Jul-99 Manoj Saxena opined:
>     
>     I have a Redhat Linux 5.2 server on network 3. I have a client on
> network 2. They can ping and telnet eachother. My problem is how do I
> copy directories containing sub-directories and files and so on from 
> the server to this client. 
>     
>     It is not possible with ftp. For the time being I zipped the 
> directories and made a file and transferred through ftp. I don't 
> wan't to zip and then use ftp as it occupies dual space (Reason being
> this is aroung 1GB on zipping it again generates around 1GB). The 
> same procedure needs to be followed at the client side causing a lot 
> of waste of time. Please suggest.

        cp -R <paths_and_filenames or_wildcards>

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