RCP(1C)             RISC/os Reference Manual              RCP(1C)



NAME
     rcp - remote file copy

SYNOPSIS
     rcp [ -p ] file1 file2
     rcp [ -p ] [ -r ] file ... directory

DESCRIPTION
     rcp copies files between machines.  Each file or directory
     argument is either a remote file name of the form
     ``rhost:path'', or a local file name (containing no `:'
     characters, or a `/' before any `:'s).

     If the -r option is specified and any of the source files
     are directories, rcp copies each subtree rooted at that
     name; in this case the destination must be a directory.

     By default, the mode and owner of file2 are preserved if it
     already existed; otherwise the mode of the source file modi-
     fied by the umask(2) on the destination host is used.  The
     -p option causes rcp to attempt to preserve (duplicate) in
     its copies the modification times and modes of the source
     files, ignoring the umask.

     If path is not a full path name, it is interpreted relative
     to your login directory on rhost.  A path on a remote host
     may be quoted (using \, ", or ') so that the metacharacters
     are interpreted remotely.

     rcp does not prompt for passwords; your current local user
     name must exist on rhost and allow remote command execution
     via rsh(1C).

     rcp handles third party copies, where neither source nor
     target files are on the current machine.  Hostnames may also
     take the form ``rname@rhost'' to use rname rather than the
     current user name on the remote host.

SEE ALSO
     cp(1), ftp(1C), rsh(1C), rlogin(1).

ERRORS
     Doesn't detect all cases where the target of a copy might be
     a file in cases where only a directory should be legal.

     Is confused by any output generated by commands in a .login,
     .profile, or .cshrc file on the remote host.

     The destination user and hostname may have to be specified
     as ``rhost.rname'' when the destination machine is running
     the 4.2BSD version of rcp.




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ORIGIN
     4.3 BSD





















































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