[Gllug] excluding files from scp copy

[Martin A. Brooks]

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.
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