Re: File transfer

[Rusi Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 1:00:04 PM UTC+5:30, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> I bought a new Toshiba lap top and want to copy the files from my old 
> Toshiba lap top to the new one.  They both have Debian, the latest 
> version, so can I just hook up usb to usb and copy that way? If so would 
> I need a certain command to do it?
> 
> Just a thought to make it easier since the old one's dvd burner no 
> longer works.

H/W: Back to back ethernet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable
  Special cable not needed nowadays it seems
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Dependent_Interface#Auto_MDI-X

S/W netcat maybe piped to tar

The netcat scripts I use are like so:

sendnc:
otherip=192.168.1.1
nc -vv -n -w 2 $otherip 5600 < $1

recvnc:
nc -vv -w 30 -p 5600 -l > $1

These can be directly piped to/from tar but I always have trouble working
that command out :-)