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Date: Thursday, February 26, 2015 18:45:34 -0600 From: Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] scp -rp behavior
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?
As I believe was suggested by someone when you asked about this a few days ago, the space that you have after the colon:
scp -pr mlapier@192.168.15.105: /home/m...
is the source of your problem. I just tested and confirmed it.
Some other notes: with the "mlapier@192.168.15.105" you'll, by default, be "in" the home directory of mlapier on the remote machine. So you don't need the "...:/home/mlapier/" pathing. Also, if you are in your (mlapier) home directory on the new machine when you are doing this you again won't need the pathing.
So, I think you should be able to do just:
scp -pr mlapier@192.168.15.105:.thunderbird .
or at most:
scp -pr mlapier@192.168.15.105:.thunderbird /home/mlapier/.
If, per chance, you wanted to change the directory name on the transfer you'd need to specify it, rather than just the ".", otherwise the "." will simply put directory on the target machine with the same name as the original.
- Richard