Remote copy files

[Patrick Chim]

Hi,

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 ?
If so, is there a one-line command I can do that (e.g. tar files in A | dd ... | tar -xv ... ) ?

Regards,
Patrick

[federico_3 · Accepted solution]

you can use the following :

in A
#cd DIR_to_copy
#tar cf - . | remsh B "cd DEST_dir_to_copy_DIR && tar xf -"


federico