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1.1       root        1: .TH RCP 1C "17 March 1982"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: rcp \- remote file copy
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B rcp
                      7: file1 file2
                      8: .br
                      9: .B rcp
                     10: [
                     11: .B \-r
                     12: ] file ... directory
                     13: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     14: .I Rcp
                     15: copies files between machines.  Each
                     16: .I file
                     17: or
                     18: .I directory
                     19: argument is either a remote file name of the
                     20: form ``rhost:path'', or a local file name (containing no `:' characters,
                     21: or a `/' before any `:'s.)
                     22: .PP
                     23: If the
                     24: .B \-r
                     25: is specified and any of the source files are directories,
                     26: .I rcp
                     27: copies each subtree rooted at that name; in this case
                     28: the destination must be a directory.
                     29: .PP
                     30: If
                     31: .I path
                     32: is not a full path name, it is interpreted relative to
                     33: your login directory on 
                     34: .IR rhost .
                     35: A 
                     36: .I path
                     37: on a remote host may be quoted (using \e, ", or \(aa)
                     38: so that the metacharacters are interpreted remotely.
                     39: .PP
                     40: .I Rcp
                     41: does not prompt for passwords; your current local user name
                     42: must exist on
                     43: .I rhost
                     44: and allow remote command execution via
                     45: .IR rsh (1C).
                     46: .PP
                     47: .I Rcp
                     48: handles third party copies, where neither source nor target files
                     49: are on the current machine.
                     50: Hostnames may also take the form ``rhost.rname'' to use
                     51: .I rname
                     52: rather than the current user name on the remote host.
                     53: For example, for the current user is 
                     54: .I user1 
                     55: and his local host is 
                     56: .I host1,
                     57: then the following command
                     58: .RS
                     59: 
                     60: rcp host2.userB:filea host3.userC:fileb
                     61: 
                     62: .RE
                     63: will copy
                     64: .I filea
                     65: in the home directory of 
                     66: .I userB@host2
                     67: to
                     68: .I fileb
                     69: in the home directory of
                     70: .I userC@host3
                     71: provided that the entry "host1 userA" is in
                     72: .I .rhosts
                     73: of 
                     74: .I userB@host2,
                     75: and "host2 userB" in
                     76: .I .rhosts
                     77: of 
                     78: .I userC@host3.
                     79: .SH SEE ALSO
                     80: ftp(1C), rsh(1C), rlogin(1C)
                     81: .SH FILES
                     82: /etc/hosts.equiv
                     83: .br
                     84: ".rhosts" in user's home directory
                     85: .SH BUGS
                     86: Doesn't detect all cases where the target of a copy might
                     87: be a file in cases where only a directory should be legal.
                     88: .PP
                     89: Users might be confused by any output generated by commands in a
                     90: \&.login, \&.profile, or \&.cshrc file on the remote host. Particularly,
                     91: commands setting terminal attributes in the shell startup files 
                     92: of remote accounts might fail
                     93: since the remote shell is not associated with terminals.
                     94: .PP
                     95: See also
                     96: .I .rlogin
                     97: for the bugs on parsing the equivalence list in
                     98: .I /etc/.rhosts
                     99: or
                    100: .I .rhosts
                    101: in the user home directory.
                    102: .PP

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