| RCP(1) | General Commands Manual | RCP(1) | 
rcp —
| rcp | [ -46p] file1 file2 | 
| rcp | [ -46pr] file ...
      directory | 
rcp copies files between machines. Each
  file or directory argument is
  either a remote file name of the form “rname@rhost:path”, or a
  local file name (containing no ‘:’ (colon) characters, or a
  ‘/’ (slash) before any ‘:’ (colon) characters).
The rhost can be an IPv4 or an IPv6 address string. Since IPv6 addresses already contain ‘:’ (colon) characters, an IPv6 address string must be enclosed between ‘[’ (left square bracket) and ‘]’ (right square bracket) characters. Otherwise, the first occurrence of a ‘:’ (colon) character would be interpreted as the separator between the rhost and the path. For example,
[2001:DB8::800:200C:417A]:tmp/fileOptions:
-4-6-p-p option causes rcp
      to attempt to preserve (duplicate) in its copies the modification times
      and modes of the source files, ignoring the umask.
      By default, the mode and owner of file2 are
      preserved if it already existed; otherwise the mode of the source file
      modified by the umask(2) on
      the destination host is used.-rrcp
      copies each subtree rooted at that name; in this case the destination must
      be a directory.If path is not a full path name, it is interpreted relative to the login directory of the specified user ruser on rhost, or your current user name if no other remote user name is specified. A path on a remote host may be quoted (using \, ", or ´) so that the metacharacters are interpreted remotely.
rcp does not prompt for passwords; it
    performs remote execution via
    rsh(1), and requires the same
    authorization.
rcp handles third party copies, where
    neither source nor target files are on the current machine.
rcp utility appeared in
  4.2BSD. The version of rcp
  described here has been reimplemented with Kerberos in
  4.3BSD-Reno.
Is confused by any output generated by commands in a .login, .profile, or .cshrc file on the remote host.
The destination user and hostname may have to be specified as
    “rhost.rname” when the destination machine is running the
    4.2BSD version of rcp.
| March 8, 2005 | NetBSD 9.4 |