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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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? > > -- > _ > °v° > /(_)\ > ^ ^ Mark LaPierre > Registered Linux user No #267004 > https://linuxcounter.net/ > **** > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++