how do i scp .dotfiles??

[Chris Rees]

On 30 August 2010 18:37, krad <kraduk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 27 August 2010 20:13, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> 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. :-)
>
> or
>
> sudo tar cf - /somepath | ssh x at y " sudo tar xvf - -C somepath "
>
> I agree with other posts though rsync is the easiest


Why sudo with tar?

Chris