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 afterwards if needed. :-) >
If i'm going to rename, say, ~/.Plans to ~/Plans and ~/.HowtoI18 to ~/HowtoI18, I may just scp -rp every ~/[.] file. the idea of using find to collect a tarball may work. > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"