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1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
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                      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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