how do i scp .dotfiles??

['Gary Kline']

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:21:12 -0500, Gary Gatten <Ggatten at waddell.com> wrote:
> > Rename them, copy, then rename them back?
> 
> Not good for a whole bunch of files; in this case: tar them together,
> transfer the archive, untar it; rename afterwards if needed. :-)
> 

If i'm going to rename, say, ~/.Plans to ~/Plans and ~/.HowtoI18 to
~/HowtoI18, I may just scp -rp every ~/[.] file.  the idea of using
find to collect a tarball may work.

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