On Thu, February 26, 2015 6:34 pm, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Hey all,
I'm trying to copy configuration files from my old CentOS 6.6 32 bit machine to my new CentOS 6.6 64 bit machine.
On my 32 bit machine:
[mlapier@mushroom ~]$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:DB:E5:4E:9F inet addr:192.168.15.105
When I issue this command on my new 64 bit machine, 192.168.15.101:
scp -pr mlapier@192.168.15.105: /home/mlapier/.thunderbird /home/mlapier/.thunderbird
How about escaping dot (with backslash) for the remote machine, or just giving the whole path for remote machine in quotes:
scp -pr mlapier@192.168.15.105:"/home/mlapier/.thunderbird" /home/mlapier
?
Also, if you want to specify destination directory (say with different name) you will need to end directory with forward slash both on local and remote, like:
scp -pr mlapier@192.168.15.105:"/home/mlapier/.thunderbird/" \ /home/mlapier/.thunderbird/
(this should be one line which didn't fit for me in one line hence backslash...)
Valeri
It copies all directories and files in 192.168.15.105: /home/mlapier/ to 192.168.15.101: /home/mlapier. I don't want all that, I just want the .thunderbird folder and all it's contents.
The user and group account numbers match on the two machines for this user so that's not the issue.
When I RTFM this is what I thought it said to do. I'm I misreading the FM or is something weird going on here?
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