[Gllug] excluding files from scp copy

[Duncan Anderson]

On Monday, 17 July 2006 21:42, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > I'd like to do scp -r user at remote1:/home/user user at remote2:/home/user or
> > similar but not copy the hidden files - is there a way to do this? My
> > google-fu isn't up to the correct search strin
>
> Using scp directly, no, there isn't.   You can have rsync use ssh as the
> trnasport and have rsync exclude the stuff you don't want.
>
> Mart.

Another method would be to use tar piped through ssh.

cheers
Duncan

		
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