https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/remote-copy-files/m-p/2519930#M23422 Hi,<BR /><BR />I have two machines A and B. I use 'rcp -pr' to copy files/subdirectory from A to B by means of a script running with root in B. But the owner of all files in B always changed to root even though I have used the '-p' option (some originally with owner informix). Do I need to tar all the files in A and untar in B ?<BR />If so, is there a one-line command I can do that (e.g. tar files in A | dd ... | tar -xv ... ) ?<BR /><BR />Regards,<BR />Patrick Mon, 23 Apr 2001 05:48:58 GMT Patrick Chim 2001-04-23T05:48:58Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/remote-copy-files/m-p/2519930#M23422 Hi,<BR /><BR />I have two machines A and B. I use 'rcp -pr' to copy files/subdirectory from A to B by means of a script running with root in B. But the owner of all files in B always changed to root even though I have used the '-p' option (some originally with owner informix). Do I need to tar all the files in A and untar in B ?<BR />If so, is there a one-line command I can do that (e.g. tar files in A | dd ... | tar -xv ... ) ?<BR /><BR />Regards,<BR />Patrick Mon, 23 Apr 2001 05:48:58 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/remote-copy-files/m-p/2519930#M23422 Patrick Chim 2001-04-23T05:48:58Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/remote-copy-files/m-p/2519931#M23423 <BR />you can use the following :<BR /><BR />in A<BR />#cd DIR_to_copy<BR />#tar cf - . | remsh B "cd DEST_dir_to_copy_DIR &amp;&amp; tar xf -"<BR /><BR /><BR />federico Mon, 23 Apr 2001 05:52:53 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/remote-copy-files/m-p/2519931#M23423 federico_3 2001-04-23T05:52:53Z