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                     20: .Dd July 24, 1990
                     21: .Dt RCP 1
                     22: .Os BSD 4.2
                     23: .Sh NAME
                     24: .Nm rcp
                     25: .Nd remote file copy
                     26: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     27: .Nm rcp
                     28: .Op Fl p
                     29: .Op Fl k Ar realm
                     30: .Ar file1 file2
                     31: .Nm rcp
                     32: .Op Fl p
                     33: .Op Fl r
                     34: .Op Fl k Ar realm
                     35: .Ar file ...
                     36: .Ar directory
                     37: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     38: .Nm Rcp
                     39: copies files between machines.  Each
                     40: .Ar file
                     41: or
                     42: .Ar directory
                     43: argument is either a remote file name of the
                     44: form ``rname@rhost:path'', or a local file name (containing no `:' characters,
                     45: or a `/' before any `:'s).
                     46: .Pp
                     47: .Tp Fl r
                     48: If any of the source files are directories,
                     49: .Nm rcp
                     50: copies each subtree rooted at that name; in this case
                     51: the destination must be a directory.
                     52: .Tp Fl p
                     53: The
                     54: .Fl p
                     55: option causes
                     56: .Nm rcp
                     57: to attempt to preserve (duplicate) in its copies the modification
                     58: times and modes of the source files, ignoring the
                     59: .Ar umask  .
                     60: By default, the mode and owner of
                     61: .Ar file2
                     62: are preserved if it already existed; otherwise the mode of the source file
                     63: modified by the
                     64: .Xr umask  2
                     65: on the destination host is used.
                     66: .Tp Fl k
                     67: The
                     68: .Fl k
                     69: option requests
                     70: .Nm rcp
                     71: to obtain tickets
                     72: for the remote host in realm
                     73: .Ar realm
                     74: instead of the remote host's realm as determined by
                     75: .Xr krb_realmofhost  3  .
                     76: .Tp
                     77: .Pp
                     78: If
                     79: .Ar path
                     80: is not a full path name, it is interpreted relative to
                     81: the login directory of the specified user
                     82: .Ar ruser
                     83: on
                     84: .Ar rhost  ,
                     85: or your current user name if no other remote user name is specified.
                     86: A
                     87: .Ar path
                     88: on a remote host may be quoted (using \e, ", or \(aa)
                     89: so that the metacharacters are interpreted remotely.
                     90: .Pp
                     91: .Nm Rcp
                     92: does not prompt for passwords; it performs remote execution
                     93: via
                     94: .Xr rsh  1  ,
                     95: and requires the same authorization.
                     96: .Pp
                     97: .Nm Rcp
                     98: handles third party copies, where neither source nor target files
                     99: are on the current machine.
                    100: .Sh SEE ALSO
                    101: .Xr cp 1 ,
                    102: .Xr ftp 1 ,
                    103: .Xr rsh 1 ,
                    104: .Xr rlogin 1
                    105: .Sh HISTORY
                    106: .Nm Rcp
                    107: appeared in 4.2 BSD.  The version of rcp described here
                    108: has been reimplemented with Kerberos in 4.3+Reno BSD.
                    109: .Sh BUGS
                    110: Doesn't detect all cases where the target of a copy might
                    111: be a file in cases where only a directory should be legal.
                    112: .Pp
                    113: Is confused by any output generated by commands in a
                    114: .Pa \&.login ,
                    115: .Pa \&.profile ,
                    116: or
                    117: .Pa \&.cshrc
                    118: file on the remote host.
                    119: .Pp
                    120: The destination user and hostname may have to be specified as
                    121: ``rhost.rname'' when the destination machine is running the 4.2BSD
                    122: version of
                    123: .Nm rcp  .

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