-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Florin Iucha wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 07:17:58AM -0600, Raymond Norton wrote: >> I'm running into the "Arguments too long" error when attempting to scp >> 16000+ flash files to a server. A couple solutions I found mentioned >> shortening the file list, or modifying binfmts.h. >> >> I don't want to do either. Is there another easy way to get the files >> copied over? > > How about moving the files locally to a folder, then transferring the > folder over with "scp -r"? > > florin > Another possible solution would be to use rsync...you'd need it installed on both sides. rsync -avzP -e "ssh -i /your/privatekey" /somedir user at host:/remotedir If you go this route you'll want to read up on the rules for trailing slashes in paths. rsync behaves differently with /somedir vs. /somedir/ - -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5ABC 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkl4gjkACgkQJvkB8SevrstyHgCfdKZVqQlMe5uuCZRSnQKSaBxB WL0AoI1qrxfN876wJjMk9Thl7MISJb0B =o8mh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----