On Saturday 18 March 2006 15:27, Andy Green wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > The scp man page is not very verbose ;-) I want to copy a directory, > > recursively, over the lan, but only those files that are new or updated. > > MS-DOS could do this back in ...Ummm.... so I can't believe it can't be > > done in scp, but I can't see how to do it. > > Use rsync for such tasks. It natively understands how to move files > over ssh. Eg > > rsync -avz mysourcedir user@desthost:/path/on/destination > > will just update/transmit files changed in the source dir compared to > the destination. > Oops - I think I've just made a terrible mistake. I rsync'd my home directory, forgetting that it would take the hidden files and config files with it. Now I'll have to see what damage is done. Anne
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