[Linux-disciples] Copying amongst machines via scp

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:17:14PM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Doesn't seem so hackish to me. Of course you could wrap it in a pretty
> shell script if you didn't want to know what was going on. It's also
> common to use tar in this context to do the operation with multiple
> files preserving directory structure, etc.. With rsync, I suppose you
> could use the --rsh switch.

One reason it's hackish is that it's limited: what if I
wanted to do an scp -r? Eventually, in order to incorporate
all the flags to scp that I normally use, I'd be rewriting a
large part of the command-line-parsing code that's already
in scp.

The fact that rsync has a --rsh switch is what leads me to
believe that there's a way to do this using scp's own
command-line arguments. I'll look into doing this using
rsync; that may well do the trick.

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