Peter da Silva wrote: > Back during the whole scp1 versus scp2 fiasco, I got used to using > > tar cfz - directory | ssh u...@host sh -c "cd $wherever; tar xfz -"
Tsk tsk. cd $wherever && tar xfpz - Just in case something bad happened to $wherever since last time. (I've had a script very much like that in ~/bin, adding an appropriate cd also at the source end, since, well, long time ago) > Both scp and rsync suffer mightily from hatefully poor layering. > > >
