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		reacweb on Nov 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learn just enough Linux to get things done Yes. I also suggest to use tar instead of the dangerous cp -r: tar c -C src . \| tar x -C dst. It works over ssh connections (ssh -C for compression) and is a good training of tar syntax.

AstralStorm on Nov 16, 2017 [–]

It is also quite slow.

For such moves rsync works much better.

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