Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-09-02 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:48:28PM +0100, krad wrote: On 30 August 2010 20:02, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-09-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: Just to make =sure= about this: can using tar/gtar as root [or sudo] make sure that all the permissions are correct? It =may= save me keystrokes, :_) Permissions, yes. If you want flags, you'll need the base system tar.

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-31 Thread krad
On 30 August 2010 20:02, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Rename them, copy, then rename

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-30 Thread krad
On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Rename them, copy, then rename them back? Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together, transfer the archive, untar it; rename

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-30 Thread krad
On 27 August 2010 19:15, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:54:52AM -0700, Jason wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:41AM -0700, Gary Kline thus spake: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400 Glen

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-30 Thread Chris Rees
On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Rename them, copy, then rename them back? Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:05:31 -0700, 'Gary Kline' kl...@thought.org wrote: at least for me, gtar fails to pick up dotfiles. rsynx copies =everything=, and it looks like the test rsync script i posted last night was working all along. it was So fast that i assumed

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
'Gary == 'Gary Kline' kl...@thought.org writes: 'Gary at least for me, gtar fails to pick up dotfiles. How did you invoke it? There's a big difference between: cd $HOME gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything and cd $HOME gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss all the

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread 'Gary Kline'
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 07:06:33AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: 'Gary == 'Gary Kline' kl...@thought.org writes: 'Garyat least for me, gtar fails to pick up dotfiles. How did you invoke it? There's a big difference between: cd $HOME gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
'Gary == 'Gary Kline' kl...@thought.org writes: There's a big difference between: cd $HOME gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything and cd $HOME gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss all the dotfiles Did you do the latter, by chance? 'Gary Sure. my default is the asterisk.

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:12:11 -0700, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: 'Gary == 'Gary Kline' kl...@thought.org writes: There's a big difference between: cd $HOME gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything and cd $HOME gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread 'Gary Kline'
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:12:11PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: 'Gary == 'Gary Kline' kl...@thought.org writes: There's a big difference between: cd $HOME gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get everything and cd $HOME gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz * # will miss all the dotfiles

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 09:34:59PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:12:11 -0700, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: 'Gary == 'Gary Kline' kl...@thought.org writes: There's a big difference between: cd $HOME gtar cfz /tmp/xx.tgz . # should get

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-29 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 29 August 2010, Polytropon wrote: The problem (i. e. a convention) is that .* is not part of *, which includes everything else, even nothing, and the form *.* (that looks like the DOS equivalent of all files) does seem to omit .*; the spaced form * .* would work as it contains *

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-28 Thread 'Gary Kline'
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Rename them, copy, then rename them back? Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together, transfer the archive, untar it; rename

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-28 Thread Chris Rees
On 28 August 2010 08:02, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Rename them, copy, then rename them back? Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/08/2010 08:02:31, 'Gary Kline' wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Rename them, copy, then rename them back? Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together,

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-28 Thread 'Gary Kline'
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:29:29AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 28/08/2010 08:02:31, 'Gary Kline' wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Rename them, copy, then rename them back?

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Glen Barber
On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote: guys, this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say, ~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundreds of other dot files? scp doesn't do it. tx, scp u...@foo:\.dotfile .dotfile Regards, -- Glen Barber

RE: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Gary Gatten
Rename them, copy, then rename them back? -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Kline Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 12:08 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: how do i scp .dotfiles?? guys, this is

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote: guys, this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say, ~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundreds of other dot files? scp doesn't do it. scp -r to recursively copy directories? That should get everything in each

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Jason Helfman
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote: guys, this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say, ~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundreds of other dot files? scp doesn't do

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:29:14AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote: guys, this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say, ~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundreds of other dot files? scp doesn't do it. scp -r to

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote: guys, this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say, ~/.purpur to

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Jason
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:41AM -0700, Gary Kline thus spake: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote: guys, this is the start of my master

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Jon Radel
On 8/27/10 1:51 PM, Gary Kline wrote: i've already done 98 or so straight scp copies. the thing is how to use rsync over to an empty ethic? [[ empty == there are no \ dot files not .directories] i want EVERYTHING from this desktop, tao, temp on ethic.

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:54:52AM -0700, Jason wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:51:41AM -0700, Gary Kline thus spake: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:25:01AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:29:14AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Gary Kline wrote: guys, this is the start of my master switchover. how to i copy/scp,say, ~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple? along with many hundreds of other dot

Re: how do i scp .dotfiles??

2010-08-27 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Rename them, copy, then rename them back? Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together, transfer the archive, untar it; rename afterwards if needed. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy