You need to use rsync

rsync -av /path/to/localfile user@remotehost:/path/to/remotefile

or alternatively

rsync -av user@remotehost:/path/to/remotefile /path/to/localfile

On Friday, April 27, 2012 13:46:40 Michael Havens wrote:

thanks for the quick responses.... what I meant is like to have duplicate files on two systems and then make the files the same.

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com> wrote:

Fast answer:

ssh me@foosystem ‘cat the_Remote_file’ >> localfile

Explanation:

                On system ‘foosystem’ (as me), cat the file.  On this system, append that stream of bytes to ‘localfile’.

Should you want to ‘tail –f’ the file on ‘foosystem’, change ‘cat’ to ‘tail –f’.  (Or grep, or …)

Rusty

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From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Michael Havens
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:05 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: merge documents with scp

is there a way to tell scp to add any appended text to an existing document? (that's called 'merge', right?)

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