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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Arg List too Long in SCP Post 302170663 by chris1234 on Tuesday 26th of February 2008 09:14:10 AM
Old 02-26-2008
Arg List too Long in SCP
Hey guys. I have a program written in which i am trying to get the files from one remote machine and transferring the files to another remote machine using SCP.

It works fine for 50 or 60 files but when the files grows to 250 then i get an error message stating "Arg list too long".

Code:
#scp -p -B ${SRC} $DEST

Let me know if you would like to see the full code. I know i can accomplish the same task using FTP but was wondering if theres a way to do it through SCP.

Thanks for all your help.
 

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