Thanks Bob. On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 23:17 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bhasker C V wrote: > > I was trying to scp a large directory from server to my box (server on > > FC and my desktop on etch). I use scp -r option to copy all the files. > > But when it happens that the scp fails somewhere, i cannot ask it to > > continue by omitting the ones it has already copied. > > This is a perfect application for 'rsync'. > > rsync -av /from/here/dir example.com:/to/there/ > > The rsync program will only copy what needs to be copied. This means > it can be interrupted and restarted and will quite efficiently > complete the copy without transmitting the previously copied data. > > > For example in the standard cp command, i can give a '-i' option to > > interactively ask if the command is going to overwrite a file > > already present. > > Grr... That is a blunt and coarse use of 'cp -i'. You would have to > answer 'n'o to a lot of questions. Or use 'yes n | cp -i' and that > seems worse. Of course 'cp -u' will avoid copying the previously > copied files too but better to use rsync here. > > > Why is this option not present in scp ? > > Because it is not needed because it exists in other commands. scp is > simply an rcp lookalike command. > > Bob > > -- Bhasker C V Registered Linux user: #306349 (counter.li.org) The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT, or better", so I installed Linux.
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