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Old 01-06-2010
scp vs rcp

Hi,

What is the difference between scp and rcp and what are the advantages and disadvantages? which one is favor to use than the other between these two?

Thanks
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Old 01-06-2010
scp uses secured shell which rcp does not rcp uses rsh and scp uses ssh
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