How do I copy all files with scp in 1 command?

[John Sellens]

| From: waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
| Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 15:10:51 -0400
| 
| scp * new_machine:/home/waltdnes/
| scp \.* new_machine:/home/waltdnes/
| 
|   Is there a simpler way that works with 1 command?


scp, like cp and mv, can take multiple source files, and indeed,
you are already doing that - the * expands to multiple files.

Virtually anywhere you use one shell wildcard, you can use more than one.

So:

    scp * .??* new_machine:/home/waltdnes/

I use ".??*" to avoid matching . or .. (the directories) and because
I rarely have files named with a period and one character.

As others mentioned, you can of course use scp's -r option, if you
want to recursively copy an entire directory.

    scp -p -r . new_machine:/home/waltdnes/

-p means retain dates and owner/group/mode.

And of course, rsync is a good choice as well, especially if your
copy might be interrupted in the middle somewhere:

    rsync -av . new_machine:/home/waltdnes/

Hope that helps - cheers!

John

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