Re: transferring directories with scp/rsync?

[Shachar Or <dawnlight@lavabit.com>]

On Wednesday 13 August 2008 01:54, Zach Uram wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a directory /tmp/foo on my local host alpha.org and I wish to
> transfer it to user Bob (/home/bob) in dirctory $HOME/www/bar on
> remote host beta.org. How precisely can I do this 1) using scp 2)
> using rsync? I would like to see the commands for doing this with both
> methods. Ssh is running on both hosts.

please read the scp and rsync documentation,
>
> Also what happens if the directory already existed on the remote host
> and has some of the same file names. Is it possible to use md5sums so
> that if a file is exact (same hash) it will prompt me and ask if I
> want to over-write it before it does?

and experiment!
>
> Zach

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