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One of my favorites for quickly copying a directory between hosts is... dsthost# nc -l 1234 | tar -xvzf - -C . srchost# tar -xzf - . | nc dsthost 1234

• hernan7 17y ago
  Heh, I used to use rsh (or was it rlogin?) for the same purpose back in the day, before rsync came along.
  • jrg 17y ago
    and we used to use ttcp (for it was more efficient with slinging around large files.)