Re: copying files from home directory on one machine to directory on another machine
On Sunday 29 November 2009 12:23:47 Dave Witbrodt wrote:
> > That's right. I've never used either tool before. Thanks a lot for
> > the tip!
>
> Sure. If you're in the mood to learn about every possibility...
>
> You might also consider NFS: [...]
Okay, if every possibility is what you want to learn you cannot miss the
excellent combination of nc and cpio:
On your target (bob):
% cd targetdir
% nc -l -p 6060 alice | cpio -iv
On your source (alice):
% cp sourcedir
% find -print0 | cpio -ov0 | nc bob 6060
nc is short for netcat, it will listen on bob (-l) on port 6060 (-p
6060) for alice. The input comes from bob, who is sending the message
via nc. In short it's like a pipe over the network (unencrypted, use
cryptcat if your network is not trustworthy). cpio (copy in / copy out)
does the actual data transfer. On bob the mode is copy in (-i) and on
alice it's copy out (-o). To see what's being transferred you can use (-
v). Finally, you can use find (-print0 / -0) to pipe the names of files
to be transferred to cpio.
Have fun ;-)
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