From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-04-13T11:32:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Controlling an interactive program from Ruby

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 10:59:27 +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> I want to copy a large number of files from a remote location using scp.
> I already have a script that generates the entire list of files to copy, 
> and figures out where each one goes.  The problem is that these are spread 
> over 300 directories, and I don't want to type my password 300 times.

> Any ideas?


> cat mybigfilelist | xargs -t -J {} -L2 scp {}
[snip]
> cat mybigfilelist
source  login@desthost:/destination/.
index.rbx admin@microsoft.com:/web/.
COMMAND.COM admin@microsoft.com:/winxp/.
AUTOEXEC.BAT admin@microsoft.com:/winxp/.
ruby.h admin@microsoft.com:/winxp/windows.h
>


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Simon Strandgaard