On 8/30/07, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > I am trying to do an rsync or scp from machine1 to machine2. > I am getting arg list to long. > > I am using centos 5 machine 1 and centos 4.5 on machine2. > > I am using the default shell which is bash. > > How can I get past this? > > Thanks, > Jerry I would use find and xargs. That's usually how I get around it. You'll have to experiment though. Something like: find ./ -type f | xargs scp ..... That's not a fully functional command!