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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)rcp.1       6.5 (Berkeley) 9/16/87
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH RCP 1C "September 16, 1987"
        !             8: .UC 5
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: rcp \- remote file copy
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B rcp
        !            13: [
        !            14: .B \-p
        !            15: ] file1 file2
        !            16: .br
        !            17: .B rcp
        !            18: [
        !            19: .B \-p
        !            20: ] [
        !            21: .B \-r
        !            22: ] file ... directory
        !            23: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            24: .I Rcp
        !            25: copies files between machines.  Each
        !            26: .I file
        !            27: or
        !            28: .I directory
        !            29: argument is either a remote file name of the
        !            30: form ``rhost:path'', or a local file name (containing no `:' characters,
        !            31: or a `/' before any `:'s).
        !            32: .PP
        !            33: If the
        !            34: .B \-r
        !            35: option
        !            36: is specified and any of the source files are directories,
        !            37: .I rcp
        !            38: copies each subtree rooted at that name; in this case
        !            39: the destination must be a directory.
        !            40: .PP
        !            41: By default, the mode and owner of
        !            42: .I file2
        !            43: are preserved if it already existed; otherwise the mode of the source file
        !            44: modified by the
        !            45: .IR umask (2)
        !            46: on the destination host is used.
        !            47: The
        !            48: .B \-p
        !            49: option causes
        !            50: .I rcp
        !            51: to attempt to preserve (duplicate) in its copies the modification
        !            52: times and modes of the source files, ignoring the
        !            53: .IR umask .
        !            54: .PP
        !            55: If
        !            56: .I path
        !            57: is not a full path name, it is interpreted relative to
        !            58: your login directory on 
        !            59: .IR rhost .
        !            60: A 
        !            61: .I path
        !            62: on a remote host may be quoted (using \e, ", or \(aa)
        !            63: so that the metacharacters are interpreted remotely.
        !            64: .PP
        !            65: .I Rcp
        !            66: does not prompt for passwords; your current local user name
        !            67: must exist on
        !            68: .I rhost
        !            69: and allow remote command execution via
        !            70: .IR rsh (1C).
        !            71: .PP
        !            72: .I Rcp
        !            73: handles third party copies, where neither source nor target files
        !            74: are on the current machine.
        !            75: Hostnames may also take the form ``rname@rhost'' to use
        !            76: .I rname
        !            77: rather than the current user name on the remote host.
        !            78: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            79: cp(1), ftp(1C), rsh(1C), rlogin(1C)
        !            80: .SH BUGS
        !            81: Doesn't detect all cases where the target of a copy might
        !            82: be a file in cases where only a directory should be legal.
        !            83: .PP
        !            84: Is confused by any output generated by commands in a
        !            85: \&.login, \&.profile, or \&.cshrc file on the remote host.
        !            86: .PP
        !            87: The destination user and hostname may have to be specified as
        !            88: ``rhost.rname'' when the destination machine is running the 4.2BSD
        !            89: version of \fIrcp\fP.
        !            90: 

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