On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:25:32PM -0700, Steve Lee wrote:
> does anyone know the commands that are similar to the: cp -af that
> I can invoke using scp. need to preserve ownership, permission, the
> whole thing.
I don't know any suitable options and can't check as this machine has no
scp, but one possible way to achieve this would be to tar the directory
you'd like to copy, copy it and untar it on the target system - should
preserve everything, I *think*. You might want to look into tar's
documentation, especially the -p switch (preserve).
HTH,
Thomas
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