On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Mike Hoy wrote:

> scp -rp /home/user/music/*.mp3
> root@192.168.2.161:/mnt/LaptopBackup/user/music/
>
> and all of the *.mp3's copy over.
>
> that would be fine if I had all of my *.mp3 files in one big directory
> but i don't
>
> in /music i have more directories for each band..
>
> i would just like to copy an entire directory with all of it's sub
> directories.

Get rid of the "/*.mp3" and just scp -rp the entire /home/user/music
directory (assuming that is okay).

You may want to use rsync if you will be repeating this.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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