<head></head><body data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Try scp . Remote:/path</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Faisal </div> <p style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.</p> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Neil Watson</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, May 15, 2013 18:35 PM</div><div><b>To: </b>Toronto Linux Users Group</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [TLUG]: How do I copy all files with scp in 1 command?</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style="">On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 03:10:51PM -0400, waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote:<br>> I'm mostly finished setting up a new desktop PC, after which an<br>>ancient PC will go to the York Region ewaste centre. One problem I ran<br>>into whilst copying over files is that "dot-files", e.g. .bash_profile<br>>and .bashrc are not copied over when I specify "*". What I ended up<br>>doing was...<br>><br>>scp * new_machine:/home/waltdnes/<br>>scp \.* new_machine:/home/waltdnes/<br><br>Try this:<br>tar -cf - * .* | ssh host 'tar -xf -'<br><br>-- <br>Neil Watson<br>Linux/UNIX Consultant<br>http://watson-wilson.ca<br>--<br>The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/<br>TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns<br>How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists<br></div></body>
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