Re: sftp question -

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Bob Goodwin - W2BOD wrote:
> I'd like to transfer a copy of my t-bird Mail files to another box
> but when I try to sftp it I get an error message:
>
> "Cannot download non-regular file: .thunderbird/05puurvg.default/Mail/"
>
>
> Is there a way to do this?

It's probably easier to use scp for copying the entire directory.  The
syntax is something like this:

scp -r $USERNAME@$REMOTEHOST:.thunderbird/05puurvg.default/Mail/ .

The -r means recursively copy.  This will copy the Mail dir from
$REMOTEHOST to the current directory on the local host.  If your
username is the same on both systems, you can leave off the $USERNAME@
part.

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