On 03/01/15 10:44, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 02/26/15 19:45, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>>
>> 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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>>
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>
> Putting the source path in quotes, because of the dot, like this:
>
> scp -pr mlapier@192.168.15.105:"/home/mlapier/.thunderbird" /home/mlapier
>
> worked.
>
> If the destination also contains a dot or other such character then put
> the destination in quotes too:
>
> scp -pr mlapier@192.168.15.105:"/home/mlapier/.thunderbird"
> "/home/mlapier/.thunderbird"
>
> but only include the destination directory if the destination directory
> does not yet exist otherwise you will get a copy of the source directory
> inside the destination directory like this:
>
> /home/mlapier/.thunderbird/.thunderbird
>
Wow! I didn't mean to start such a spirited discussion. ;-)
Thank you all for your help and explanations. Very enlightening. Maybe
I'll try out the rsync example when I copy all the user homes across. I
would have to know all the user passwords in order to use scp to copy
over home directories that are not mine. I already use rsync to do my
nightly backups.
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