guys,
this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say,
~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundreds of other
dot files? scp doesn't do it.
tx,
gary
--
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
The 7.83a release of Jotting
On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> guys,
>
> this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say,
> ~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundreds of other
> dot files? scp doesn't do it.
>
> tx,
>
scp u...@foo:\.dotfile .dotfile
Regards,
--
Glen Barber
Rename them, copy, then rename them back?
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Subject: how do i scp .dotfiles??
guys,
this is
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote:
>
>guys,
>
>this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say,
>~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundreds of other
>dot files? scp doesn't do it.
>
scp -r to recursively copy directories? That should get
everything in each di
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400
Glen Barber wrote:
> On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > guys,
> >
> > this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say,
> > ~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundreds of other
> > dot files? scp doesn't do it.
> >
>
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:29:14AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> >guys,
> >
> >this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say,
> >~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundreds of other
> >dot files? scp doesn't do it.
> >
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400
> Glen Barber wrote:
>
> > On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > >
> > > guys,
> > >
> > > this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say,
> > > ~/.purpur to home/kline/.pu
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:41AM -0700, Gary Kline thus spake:
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400
Glen Barber wrote:
> On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > guys,
> >
> > this is the start of my master switchover. how to
On 8/27/10 1:51 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
i've already done 98 or so straight scp copies. the thing is how
to use rsync over to an empty ethic? [[ empty == "there are no \
dot files not .directories"] i want EVERYTHING from this desktop,
tao, temp on ethic.
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:54:52AM -0700, Jason wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:41AM -0700, Gary Kline thus spake:
> >On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
> >>On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400
> >>Glen Barber wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:29:14AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote:
>> >
>> >guys,
>> >
>> >this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say,
>> >~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundred
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten wrote:
> Rename them, copy, then rename them back?
Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together,
transfer the archive, untar it; rename afterwards if needed. :-)
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten wrote:
> > Rename them, copy, then rename them back?
>
> Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together,
> transfer the archive, untar it; rename afterwards if neede
On 28 August 2010 08:02, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten wrote:
>> > Rename them, copy, then rename them back?
>>
>> Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together,
>> transfer
On 28/08/2010 08:02:31, 'Gary Kline' wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten wrote:
>>> Rename them, copy, then rename them back?
>>
>> Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together,
>> transfer
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:29:29AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 28/08/2010 08:02:31, 'Gary Kline' wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten
> >> wrote:
> >>> Rename them, copy, then rename them back?
> >>
> >>
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:05:31 -0700, "'Gary Kline'" wrote:
> at least for me, gtar fails to pick up dotfiles. rsynx copies
> =everything=, and it looks like the test rsync script i posted
> last night was working all along. it was So fast that i assumed
> it was bombin
> "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' writes:
'Gary> at least for me, gtar fails to pick up dotfiles.
How did you invoke it?
There's a big difference between:
cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything
and
cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss all the dotfil
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 07:06:33AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' writes:
>
> 'Gary>at least for me, gtar fails to pick up dotfiles.
>
> How did you invoke it?
>
> There's a big difference between:
>
> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # shoul
> "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' writes:
>> There's a big difference between:
>>
>> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything
>>
>> and
>>
>> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss all the dotfiles
>>
>> Did you do the latter, by chance?
'Gary> Sure. my default is th
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:12:11 -0700, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
wrote:
> > "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' writes:
>
> >> There's a big difference between:
> >>
> >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:12:11PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' writes:
>
> >> There's a big difference between:
> >>
> >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss all t
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 09:34:59PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:12:11 -0700, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L.
> Schwartz) wrote:
> > > "'Gary" == 'Gary Kline' writes:
> >
> > >> There's a big difference between:
> > >>
> > >> cd $HOME && gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should
On Sunday 29 August 2010, Polytropon wrote:
> The "problem" (i. e. a convention) is that .* is not part of *,
> which includes everything else, even "nothing", and the
> form *.* (that looks like the DOS equivalent of "all files")
> does seem to omit .*; the spaced form * .* would work as it
> con
On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten
> wrote:
> > Rename them, copy, then rename them back?
>
> Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together,
> transfer the archive, untar it; rename afterwards if needed. :-)
>
>
>
>
On 27 August 2010 19:15, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:54:52AM -0700, Jason wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:41AM -0700, Gary Kline thus spake:
> > >On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
> > >>On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400
> > >>Glen Barber
On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad wrote:
> On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten
>> wrote:
>> > Rename them, copy, then rename them back?
>>
>> Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together,
>> transfer the archive, unt
On 30 August 2010 20:02, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad wrote:
> > On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten
> >> wrote:
> >> > Rename them, copy, then rename them back?
> >>
> >> Not good for a whole bunch of files;
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:48:28PM +0100, krad wrote:
> On 30 August 2010 20:02, Chris Rees wrote:
>
> > On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad wrote:
> > > On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten
> > >> wrote:
> > >> > Rename them, copy,
Gary Kline writes:
> Just to make =sure= about this: can using tar/gtar as root [or
> sudo] make sure that all the permissions are correct? It =may=
> save me keystrokes, :_)
Permissions, yes. If you want flags, you'll need the base system tar.
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