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Old 05-18-2010
Question How does solaris recursive scp work?
How does recursive scp work? By recursive I think it should follow all the directories and copy all the matching files. It doesn't work like what I would expect. Here is a simple example that shows scp -r does not go into the subdirectories "one" and "two":
Code:
[user@webm ~/testrec]$ ls
one two zero.txt

[user@webm ~/testrec]$ ls one
oneone.txt onetwo.txt

[user@webm ~/testrec]$ ls two
twoone.txt twotwo.txt

[user@webm ~/testrec]$ scp -r *.txt root@web9:/testrec
zero.txt

[user@webm ~/testrec]$ cd ..

[user@webm ~]$ scp -r testrec/*.txt root@web9:/testrec
zero.txt

Last edited by Scott; 05-19-2010 at 03:49 AM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 05-18-2010
Why not just scp a list like
Code:
scp -p $(...) user@host:/path/.

# 3  
Old 05-19-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by curleb
Why not just scp a list like
Code:
scp -p $(...) user@host:/path/.

This seems not working yet. From man page the '-p' option is to preserve modification times, access times, and modes from the original file. It does not do recursive copy.
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Old 05-19-2010
it's not supposed to supply recursion, just force of habit for me...

The recursion comes from the find or whatever list-setting command string you'd embed between your $(...). That would supply scp with the entire contents with which you'd want to move between sites.

Otherwise, rsync or similar options would provide for mirroring, etc...albeit not via SSH protocols.
# 5  
Old 05-19-2010
MySQL
Hi,

scp is not doing any recursive searching here.

It's the same as doing a
Code:
ls -R *.txt

. Try that and you will get the same result.

The command is only matching *.txt in the current directory. If your zero.txt file was a directory it would copy it and all of it's contents.

Does that help?
Last edited by DougyC; 05-19-2010 at 08:49 AM.. Reason: typo
# 6  
Old 05-19-2010
You need to specify a directory, not a list of files.

Code:
scp -r testrec/ root@web9:/testrec

# 7  
Old 05-19-2010
True...it's an option (under OpenSSH on Solaris), but it's much more reliable to pass a list you actually compile. The OP does not specify their SSH package, but I'm always one for telling the apps what I mean, explicitly, and not relying upon their own recursion routines.
 
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