Linux File Transfer (not ftp)

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 13:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 14:42 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > Les Mikesell wrote:
> > > Yes, if you are going to be transferring more than one file you
> > > might as well do it in way you can interrupt and restart
> > > efficiently.  And, scp doesn't have the handy and obvious
> > > '-a' counterpart to gnu cp and rsync.
> > 
> > Nor the fabulously efficient transfer of only the changed bits of a
> > file.  :)
> > 
> > I agree completely that rsync is a better tool for most jobs like this
> > and use it all the time myself, while I only rarely use scp.
> > 
> > Of course, it's man page is rather large and can be daunting to get
> > your head around on first read.  But it's features make it well worth
> > the time spent learning to use it.

> I find this technique works for almost everything I want to copy:
> cd source_dir
> rsync -essh -av . user at remote_host:/path/to/dir

	The -essh is now optional if all you want is straight ssh.  That's now
the default.  They dropped the rsh transport some time ago although you
still use the RSYNC_RSH environment variable to set that transport if
you want something OTHER than ssh or if you want to include some ssh
parameters (like a -i identity file).

> (or individual files/wildcards may be specified instead of . for
> the whole current directory tree).
> The final element on the target path will be created if it doesn't
> exist (but only one) and by specifying . as the source you don't
> have to remember whether or not to add a trailing slash to a
> directory name.  For low bandwidth connections I might throw
> in the -z flag for compression.
> 
> -- 
>   Les Mikesell
>    lesmikesell at gmail.com

	Mike
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