Re: How to copy recursively ?

[felix k sheng <felix deasil com>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 12:40:42PM +0530, Manoj Saxena wrote:
>    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. 

Assuming you've got ssh installed (and rsh turned off!) you can do this:

(all of this is on the server on network3 which I assume to be the source)

cd /path/to/base/of/source/files
tar cf - . | ssh user host network2 "(cd /path/to/unpack/dir; tar xf -)"

I think that's it... I never remember to 100% confidence so it takes
a quick test and then do it.. but this will copy all your files in
the source dir and untar them in the unpack dir w/out creating any
intermittent temporary files.

felix

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