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copies files between machines. Each or argument is either a remote file
name of the form ‘‘rname@rhost:path’’, or a local file name (containing no
‘:’ characters, or a ‘/’ before any ‘:’s). If any of the source files are directories,
copies each subtree rooted at that name; in this case the destination
must be a directory. The option causes to attempt to preserve (duplicate)
in its copies the modification times and modes of the source files, ignoring
the By default, the mode and owner of are preserved if it already existed;
otherwise the mode of the source file modified by the on the destination
host is used. The option requests to obtain tickets for the remote host
in realm instead of the remote host’s realm as determined by The option
turns on encryption for all data passed by This may impact response time
and utilization, but provides increased security. If is not a full path
name, it is interpreted relative to the login directory of the specified
user on or your current user name if no other remote user name is specified.
A on a remote host may be quoted (using \, ", or ´) so that the metacharacters
are interpreted remotely. does not prompt for passwords; it performs remote
execution via and requires the same authorization. handles third party
copies, where neither source nor target files are on the current machine.
The command appeared in The version of described
here has been reimplemented with Kerberos in
Doesn’t detect all cases
where the target of a copy might be a file in cases where only a directory
should be legal. Is confused by any output generated by commands in a
or file on the remote host. The destination user and hostname may have
to be specified as ‘‘rhost.rname’’ when the destination machine is running the
version of
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