You need to use rsync
rsync -av /path/to/localfile user@remotehost:/path/to/remotefile or alternatively rsync -av user@remotehost:/path/to/remotefile /path/to/localfile On Friday, April 27, 2012 13:46:40 Michael Havens wrote: thanks for the quick responses.... what I meant is like to have duplicate files on two systems and then make the files the same. On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Carruth, Rusty <[email protected]> wrote: Fast answer: ssh me@foosystem ‘cat the_Remote_file’ >> localfile Explanation: On system ‘foosystem’ (as me), cat the file. On this system, append that stream of bytes to ‘localfile’. Should you want to ‘tail –f’ the file on ‘foosystem’, change ‘cat’ to ‘tail – f’. (Or grep, or …) Rusty . From: [email protected] [mailto:plug-discuss- [email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Havens Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:05 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: merge documents with scp is there a way to tell scp to add any appended text to an existing document? (that's called 'merge', right?) -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -- Regards, Nathan England ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NME Computer Services http://www.nmecs.com Nathan England ([email protected]) Systems Administration / Web Application Development Information Security and Consulting (480) 559.9681
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